How do judges of the New York Court of Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Court of Appeals / Joined 1870 / Served to 1880

Charles James Folger

Judge, New York Court of Appeals

Charles James Folger was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1870. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1818–1884
Tenure: 1870–1880 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1870	New York Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Folger authored 503 published opinions for the court (1870–1881), plus 5 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: People Ex Rel. Ryan v. . Green (358 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 143 of these were attributed to Folger by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1874	People Ex Rel. Ryan v. . Green	58 N.Y. 295	358
1878	Payne v. . Wilson	74 N.Y. 348	317
1878	Hunt v. . Hunt	72 N.Y. 217	279
1875	Maxmilian v. . Mayor	62 N.Y. 160	249
1879	Kent v. . Quicksilver Mining Co.	78 N.Y. 159	237
1871	Brooklyn Park Commissioners v. Armstrong	45 N.Y. 234	180
1873	Simar v. . Canaday	53 N.Y. 298	162
1876	McDonald v. Mayor of New York	68 N.Y. 23	134
1875	Patterson v. . Patterson	59 N.Y. 574	128
1881	Lawrence v. . Miller	86 N.Y. 131	127
1872	Walls v. . Bailey	49 N.Y. 464	125
1874	Swords v. . Edgar	59 N.Y. 28	121
1871	Coster v. Mayor, Aldermen & Commonalty	43 N.Y. 399	120
1879	Warner v. . Durant	76 N.Y. 133	116
1872	The People Ex Rel. Jackson v. . Potter	47 N.Y. 375	110

Showing the 15 most-cited of 514 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the New York Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Charles James Folger on?: Charles James Folger was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.

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10 years on the New York Court of Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).