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 1936 / Served to 1954

Edward S. Dore

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Edward S. Dore was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1936. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1884–1958
Tenure: 1936–1954 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1936	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Dore authored 258 published opinions for the court (1936–1954), plus 211 dissents and 19 concurrences. Most cited: Kennet v. Sossnitz (261 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. 488 of these were attributed to Dore 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
1940	Kennet v. Sossnitz· Dissent†	260 A.D. 759	261
1936	Lowendahl v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad†	247 A.D. 144	173
1936	Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. v. City of New York†	247 A.D. 163	65
1938	Grand Union Co. v. General Accident, Fire & Life Assurance Corp.†	254 A.D. 274	57
1951	Howard v. Handler Bros. & Winell, Inc.· Dissent†	279 A.D. 72	43
1948	Red Robin Stores, Inc. v. Rose†	274 A.D. 462	40
1940	Feldman v. Metropolitan Life Insurance†	259 A.D. 123	35
1938	In re Doelger†	254 A.D. 178	33
1953	Avon Periodicals, Inc. v. Ziff-Davis Publishing Co.· Dissent†	282 A.D. 200	32
1941	Blaustein v. Pan American Petroleum & Transport Co.†	263 A.D. 97	32
1938	Maguire v. Yellow Taxicab Corp.· Dissent†	253 A.D. 249	30
1945	Ashland Window & Housecleaning Co. v. Metropolitan Casualty Insurance· Dissent†	269 A.D. 31	29
1938	Madison Square Garden Corp. v. Universal Pictures Co.†	255 A.D. 459	29
1948	Mazarredo v. Levine· Concurrence†	274 A.D. 122	28
1942	Bayreuther v. Reinisch†	264 A.D. 138	27

Showing the 15 most-cited of 488 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 Edward S. Dore on?: Edward S. Dore was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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18 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).