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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Appellate Division / Joined 1978 / Served to 1986

Emmett J. Schnepp

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Emmett J. Schnepp was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1978. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1910–1991
Tenure: 1978–1986 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1978	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Schnepp authored 98 published opinions for the court (1978–1986), plus 15 dissents. Most cited: Stevens v. Kirby (190 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. 113 of these were attributed to Schnepp 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
1982	Stevens v. Kirby†	86 A.D.2d 391	190
1981	Meese v. Miller†	79 A.D.2d 237	155
1984	People v. Rubin†	101 A.D.2d 71	125
1980	Lancaster Silo & Block Co. v. Northern Propane Gas Co.†	75 A.D.2d 55	115
1982	Holm v. C.M.P. Sheet Metal, Inc.†	89 A.D.2d 229	94
1984	Askey v. Occidental Chemical Corp.†	102 A.D.2d 130	73
1980	Juiditta v. Bethlehem Steel Corp.†	75 A.D.2d 126	70
1981	Monahan v. Weichert†	82 A.D.2d 102	67
1982	Koester v. State†	90 A.D.2d 357	60
1981	Muller v. Sturman†	79 A.D.2d 482	57
1984	People v. Johnson†	102 A.D.2d 616	55
1983	Erie County Industrial Development Agency v. Roberts†	94 A.D.2d 532	54
1980	Goldstein v. County of Monroe†	77 A.D.2d 232	48
1985	People v. Arnold†	113 A.D.2d 101	46
1983	Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance†	91 A.D.2d 317	46

Showing the 15 most-cited of 113 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 Emmett J. Schnepp on?: Emmett J. Schnepp was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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8 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).