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 1940 / Served to 1954

Edmund H. Lewis

Judge, New York Court of Appeals

Edmund H. Lewis was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1940. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1884–1972
Tenure: 1940–1954 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1940	New York Court of Appeals	–	–
1940	New York Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Lewis authored 214 published opinions for the court (1940–1954), plus 53 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Woods v. Lancet (477 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. 268 of these were attributed to Lewis 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
1951	Woods v. Lancet· Dissent†	303 N.Y. 349	477
1954	Duane Jones Co. v. Burke†	306 N.Y. 172	198
1943	Matter of Lyons v. Goldstein· Dissent†	47 N.E.2d 425	198
1952	Caldwell v. Village of Island Park· Dissent†	304 N.Y. 268	183
1948	Gregoire v. G. P. Putnam's Sons†	81 N.E.2d 45	145
1951	Barry v. O'Connell†	303 N.Y. 46	135
1952	Teresta v. City of New York· Dissent†	304 N.Y. 440	117
1949	In Re the Arbitration Between Western Union Telegraph Co. & American Communications Ass'n†	86 N.E.2d 162	108
1943	Kalmanash v. Smith†	51 N.E.2d 681	108
1944	Lawrence Constr. Corp. v. State of New York· Dissent†	59 N.E.2d 630	101
1947	McCrink v. City of New York†	71 N.E.2d 419	97
1946	Kane v. Walsh†	66 N.E.2d 53	90
1943	Matter of Fay†	52 N.E.2d 97	90
1943	People v. Bearden†	49 N.E.2d 785	90
1948	Packer Collegiate Institute v. University of New York· Dissent†	81 N.E.2d 80	84

Showing the 15 most-cited of 268 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 Edmund H. Lewis on?: Edmund H. Lewis was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.

Sources

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14 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).