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 1923 / Served to 1947

Francis Martin

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Francis Martin was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1923. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1878–1947
Tenure: 1923–1947 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1923	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Martin authored 679 published opinions for the court (1923–1947), plus 181 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: Conklin v. Draper (68 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. 873 of these were attributed to Martin 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
1930	Conklin v. Draper†	229 A.D. 227	68
1939	Walker v. Gerli· Dissent†	257 A.D. 249	56
1941	In re Buttles†	261 A.D. 236	49
1931	Glaser v. Huette· Dissent†	232 A.D. 119	44
1936	Finkel v. McCook†	247 A.D. 57	38
1926	In re Merrill†	215 A.D. 516	34
1925	Barnes v. Hirsch†	215 A.D. 10	32
1943	Sachs v. Cluett, Peabody & Co.†	265 A.D. 497	30
1930	In re City of New York· Dissent†	230 A.D. 41	29
1939	Paramount Pictures, Inc. v. Blumenthal†	256 A.D. 756	27
1934	Garms v. Travelers Insurance†	242 A.D. 230	27
1932	Braman v. Braman†	236 A.D. 164	26
1941	Nelson v. The Board of Higher Education· Dissent†	263 A.D. 144	24
1937	In re the Judicial Settlement of the Account of Proceedings of Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co.†	249 A.D. 542	24
1936	In re Nixon· Dissent†	248 A.D. 373	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 873 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 Francis Martin on?: Francis Martin was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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24 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).