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 1964 / Served to 1980

Ellis J. Staley Jr.

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Ellis J. Staley Jr. was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1964. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1914–1981
Tenure: 1964–1980 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1964	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Staley authored 399 published opinions for the court (1964–1980), plus 24 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Allen v. Auto Specialties Mfg. Co. (51 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. 427 of these were attributed to Staley 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
1974	Allen v. Auto Specialties Mfg. Co.†	45 A.D.2d 331	51
1980	Groat v. Town Board of the Town of Glenville†	73 A.D.2d 426	39
1974	Callanan Industries, Inc. v. Sovereign Construction Co.†	44 A.D.2d 292	33
1967	Stanton v. State†	29 A.D.2d 612	32
1972	Codling v. Paglia†	38 A.D.2d 154	24
1967	County National Bank v. Vogt†	28 A.D.2d 793	23
1969	Gross v. State†	33 A.D.2d 868	22
1974	Rose v. Thau†	45 A.D.2d 182	20
1969	Palmer v. Palmer†	31 A.D.2d 876	17
1967	Terry Contracting, Inc. v. State†	27 A.D.2d 499	17
1970	Cotignola v. Lieber†	34 A.D.2d 700	16
1967	Steingart Associates, Inc. v. Sandler†	28 A.D.2d 801	16
1979	In re the Arbitration between Saratoga Springs City School District & New York State Public Employment Relations Board†	68 A.D.2d 202	15
1971	People v. Howard†	37 A.D.2d 178	15
1974	Newcomb v. New York State Teachers' Retirement System†	43 A.D.2d 353	14

Showing the 15 most-cited of 427 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 Ellis J. Staley Jr. on?: Ellis J. Staley Jr. was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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16 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).