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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Court of Appeals / Joined 1847 / Served to 1855

Charles H. Ruggles

Judge, New York Court of Appeals

Charles H. Ruggles was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1847. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1789–1865
Tenure: 1847–1855 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1847	New York Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Ruggles authored 91 published opinions for the court (1847–1855), plus 6 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Thomas v. . Winchester (269 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. 12 of these were attributed to Ruggles 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
1852	Thomas v. . Winchester	6 N.Y. 397	269
1854	McCluskey v. . Cromwell· Dissent	11 N.Y. 593	184
1851	People Ex Rel. Griffin v. Mayor of Brooklyn	4 N.Y. 419	152
1854	Harmony v. . Bingham· Concurrence	12 N.Y. 99	126
1852	Newell v. People Ex Rel. Phelps	7 N.Y. 9	105
1853	Barto v. . Himrod	8 N.Y. 483	89
1851	Conner v. . the Mayor, C. of New York	5 N.Y. 285	82
1849	Harris v. . Clark	3 N.Y. 93	81
1852	De Peyster v. . Michael	6 N.Y. 467	72
1850	Silsbury & Calkins v. McCoon & Sherman	3 N.Y. 379	61
1849	Wilson v. . Little	2 N.Y. 443	59
1855	Holbrook v. . the Utica and Schenectady Railroad Co.	12 N.Y. 236	57
1854	Cotheal v. . Talmage	9 N.Y. 551	49
1848	Mott v. . Palmer	1 N.Y. 564	46
1851	Hoyt v. . Thompson	5 N.Y. 320	45

Showing the 15 most-cited of 101 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 H. Ruggles on?: Charles H. Ruggles was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.

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8 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).