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 1970

Earle C. Bastow

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Earle C. Bastow was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1953. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1898–1986
Tenure: 1953–1970 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Bastow authored 149 published opinions for the court (1953–1970), plus 22 dissents. Most cited: Buckley v. 112 Central Park South, Inc. (57 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. 170 of these were attributed to Bastow 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
1954	Buckley v. 112 Central Park South, Inc.†	285 A.D. 331	57
1961	Erbe v. Lincoln Rochester Trust Co.†	13 A.D.2d 211	52
1955	Gurtler v. Union Parts Manufacturing Co.†	285 A.D. 643	37
1966	Garden Check Cashing Service, Inc. v. First National City Bank†	25 A.D.2d 137	32
1960	Coastal Commercial Corp. v. Samuel Kosoff & Sons, Inc.†	10 A.D.2d 372	25
1958	Galante v. Hathaway Bakeries, Inc.†	6 A.D.2d 142	25
1954	Komar v. Dun & Bradstreet Co.· Dissent†	284 A.D. 538	25
1967	Gotham-Vladimir Advertising, Inc. v. First National City Bank†	27 A.D.2d 190	23
1957	Isereau v. Stone†	3 A.D.2d 243	22
1954	In re the Accounting of Brown†	283 A.D. 463	22
1968	Erickson v. Town of Henderson†	30 A.D.2d 282	21
1960	People v. Colavecchio†	11 A.D.2d 161	19
1958	Going v. Kennedy†	5 A.D.2d 173	19
1957	McNamara v. Allstate Insurance†	3 A.D.2d 295	19
1970	Faculty-Student Ass'n v. Sharkey†	35 A.D.2d 161	18

Showing the 15 most-cited of 171 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 Earle C. Bastow on?: Earle C. Bastow was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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17 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).