How do judges of the New York Appellate Division reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Appellate Division / Joined 1953 / Served to 1959

Charles E. Murphy

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Charles E. Murphy was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1953. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1895–1959
Tenure: 1953–1959 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1953	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Murphy authored 21 published opinions for the court (1954–1959), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Gambella v. John A. Johnson & Sons, Inc. (27 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. 22 of these were attributed to Murphy 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
1955	Gambella v. John A. Johnson & Sons, Inc.†	285 A.D. 580	27
1954	Goldberg v. Colonial Life Insurance†	284 A.D. 678	15
1955	Richards v. Zoning Board of Appeals†	285 A.D. 287	10
1955	In re Gurland†	286 A.D. 704	9
1955	In re the Accounting of Jennings†	286 A.D. 256	5
1958	Cluett, Peabody & Co. v. J. W. Mays, Inc.· Dissent†	5 A.D.2d 140	4
1957	Winter v. Kram†	3 A.D.2d 175	3
1956	In re the Accounting of Dally†	2 A.D.2d 160	3
1954	Rosenfeld v. Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp.†	284 A.D. 201	3
1957	People v. Carroll†	4 A.D.2d 537	2
1956	Wynkoop v. People†	1 A.D.2d 620	2
1956	Arnold Bakers, Inc. v. Strauss†	1 A.D.2d 604	2
1954	In re the Accounting of Vicedomini†	285 A.D. 62	2
1954	In re the Appointment of a Committee of the Property of King†	284 A.D. 748	2
1959	Kirshner v. Kirshner†	7 A.D.2d 202	1

Showing the 15 most-cited of 22 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 Appellate Division reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Charles E. Murphy on?: Charles E. Murphy was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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