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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Appellate Division / Joined 1964 / Served to 1971

Felix J. Aulisi

Justice, New York Appellate Division

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

Tenure: 1964–1971 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Aulisi authored 318 published opinions for the court (1964–1970), plus 5 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Moskowitz v. Garlock (89 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. 323 of these were attributed to Aulisi 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
1965	Moskowitz v. Garlock†	23 A.D.2d 943	89
1967	Fadden v. Cambridge Mutual Fire Insurance†	27 A.D.2d 487	31
1966	Polland v. Allstate Insurance†	25 A.D.2d 16	30
1966	Kell v. Henderson†	26 A.D.2d 595	22
1966	Van Heusen v. Board of Education of City School District†	26 A.D.2d 721	17
1970	City of Saratoga Springs v. Town of Greenfield†	34 A.D.2d 364	16
1969	Holdridge v. Town of Burlington†	32 A.D.2d 581	14
1965	Crowley's Milk Co. v. Klein†	24 A.D.2d 920	14
1965	Guptill Holding Corp. v. State†	23 A.D.2d 434	14
1964	Colony Liquor Distributors, Inc. v. Jack Daniel Distillery-Lem Motlow Prop., Inc.†	22 A.D.2d 247	14
1969	Wout v. Wout†	32 A.D.2d 709	11
1964	In re the Probate of the Will of Mack†	21 A.D.2d 205	11
1967	Alex v. Grande†	29 A.D.2d 616	10
1966	Bennett v. Troy Record Co.†	25 A.D.2d 799	10
1966	Spyros v. State†	25 A.D.2d 696	9

Showing the 15 most-cited of 324 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 Felix J. Aulisi on?: Felix J. Aulisi was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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7 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).