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 1971 / Served to 1983

Frank A. Gulotta

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Frank A. Gulotta was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1971. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1971–1983 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1971	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Gulotta authored 38 published opinions for the court (1971–1983), plus 17 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Orzechowski v. Warner-Lambert Co. (268 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. 64 of these were attributed to Gulotta 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
1983	Orzechowski v. Warner-Lambert Co.†	92 A.D.2d 110	268
1981	People v. Jones†	81 A.D.2d 22	103
1982	Morris v. County of Suffolk· Concurrence†	88 A.D.2d 956	67
1982	Burns Jackson Miller Summit & Spitzer v. Lindner†	88 A.D.2d 50	57
1982	Kenny v. George A. Fuller Co.†	87 A.D.2d 183	50
1972	Bass v. City of New York· Dissent†	38 A.D.2d 407	50
1975	Eden v. Board of Trustees†	49 A.D.2d 277	44
1981	Kahn v. Trans World Airlines, Inc.†	82 A.D.2d 696	32
1978	Rosenfeld v. A. H. Robins Co.†	63 A.D.2d 11	30
1975	Tarantola v. Williams· Concurrence†	48 A.D.2d 552	28
1974	Anderson v. Board of Education†	46 A.D.2d 360	27
1979	Viuker v. Allstate Insurance†	70 A.D.2d 295	26
1977	Carl A. Morse, Inc. v. Rentar Industrial Development Corp.†	56 A.D.2d 30	24
1973	Rooney v. City of Long Beach†	42 A.D.2d 34	21
1981	People v. Lyon†	82 A.D.2d 516	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 64 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 Frank A. Gulotta on?: Frank A. Gulotta was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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12 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).