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 1996 / Served to 2006

Daniel F. Luciano

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Daniel F. Luciano was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1996. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1931–2011
Tenure: 1996–2006 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1996	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Luciano authored 10 published opinions for the court (1997–2006), plus 9 dissents. Most cited: Wagman v. Bradshaw (310 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. 19 of these were attributed to Luciano 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
2002	Wagman v. Bradshaw†	292 A.D.2d 84	310
1998	Takayama v. Schaefer· Dissent†	240 A.D.2d 21	41
2006	Zito v. Zabarsky†	28 A.D.3d 42	37
2006	Esposito v. Shannon· Dissent†	32 A.D.3d 471	25
1997	State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Bongiorno†	237 A.D.2d 31	15
1998	Barath v. Marron· Dissent†	255 A.D.2d 280	14
2001	Knutson v. Sand†	282 A.D.2d 42	13
2005	Conde v. City of New York· Dissent†	24 A.D.3d 595	12
1998	Spivak v. Heyward†	248 A.D.2d 58	9
2001	Stasiak v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.· Dissent†	281 A.D.2d 533	8
2001	Freudenthal v. County of Nassau†	283 A.D.2d 6	7
2000	Rodriguez v. Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority· Dissent†	276 A.D.2d 769	7
2003	Notre Dame Leasing, LLC v. Rosario· Dissent†	308 A.D.2d 164	5
2004	Xiao Yang Chen v. Fischer†	12 A.D.3d 43	4
2000	Affleck v. Buckley· Dissent†	276 A.D.2d 507	4

Showing the 15 most-cited of 19 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 Daniel F. Luciano on?: Daniel F. Luciano was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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10 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).