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 1934 / Served to 1953

Edward T. Loughran

Judge, New York Court of Appeals

Edward T. Loughran was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1934. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1889–1953
Tenure: 1934–1953 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1934	New York Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Loughran authored 416 published opinions for the court (1934–1953), plus 24 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: George Foltis, Inc. v. City of New York (227 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. 30 of these were attributed to Loughran 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
1941	George Foltis, Inc. v. City of New York· Dissent	38 N.E.2d 455	227
1945	Bernardine v. City of New York	62 N.E.2d 604	202
1946	Advance Music Corp. v. American Tobacco Co.	70 N.E.2d 401	172
1938	Westchester Lighting Co. v. Westchester County Small Estates Corp.	15 N.E.2d 567	164
1940	Krause v. Krause· Dissent	26 N.E.2d 290	133
1950	Claim of Masse v. James H. Robinson Co.†	301 N.Y. 34	132
1952	Claim of Ahern v. South Buffalo Railway Co.	303 N.Y. 545	114
1950	People v. Friedman	302 N.Y. 75	113
1951	Goodwins, Inc. v. Hagedorn†	303 N.Y. 300	112
1952	Dunham v. Village of Canisteo	303 N.Y. 498	94
1947	Estin v. Estin	73 N.E.2d 113	91
1942	Loomis v. Loomis· Concurrence	42 N.E.2d 495	80
1951	Hanlon v. MacFadden Publications, Inc.	302 N.Y. 502	79
1953	Mtr. of River Brand Rice Mills v. Latrobe Brew. Co.	305 N.Y. 36	76
1941	Wechsler v. Bowman· Dissent	34 N.E.2d 322	76

Showing the 15 most-cited of 443 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 Edward T. Loughran on?: Edward T. Loughran was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.

Sources

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19 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).