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 1906 / Served to 1921

Emory A. Chase

Judge, New York Court of Appeals

Emory A. Chase was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1906. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1854–1921
Tenure: 1906–1921 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1906	New York Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Chase authored 372 published opinions for the court (1906–1921), plus 39 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Adams v. . Gillig (182 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. 16 of these were attributed to Chase 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
1910	Adams v. . Gillig	92 N.E. 670	182
1913	In Re the Accounting of Osborne	209 N.Y. 450	177
1913	In Re the Accounting of Van Alstyne	100 N.E. 802	135
1914	Schieffelin v. Valentine Komfort	106 N.E. 675	126
1916	Varney v. . Ditmars	111 N.E. 822	125
1913	Binns v. Vitagraph Co. of America	103 N.E. 1108	122
1912	Continental Securities Co. v. . Belmont	99 N.E. 138	121
1907	Matter of Sherrill v. . O'Brien	81 N.E. 124	120
1920	Imperator Realty Co. v. . Tull	127 N.E. 263	113
1916	Matter of Post v. . Burger Gohlke	111 N.E. 351	109
1918	Sullivan v. . Rosson	119 N.E. 405	103
1920	Tillman v. . Ogren	125 N.E. 821	100
1919	Bullock v. . Cooley	122 N.E. 630	99
1912	Patterson v. . Meyerhofer· Dissent	97 N.E. 472	92
1909	Scott v. . Curtis	88 N.E. 794	92

Showing the 15 most-cited of 421 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 Emory A. Chase on?: Emory A. Chase was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.

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15 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).