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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Court of Appeals / Joined 1917 / Served to 1939

Frederick E. Crane

Judge, New York Court of Appeals

Frederick E. Crane was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1917. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1869–1947
Tenure: 1917–1939 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1917	New York Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Columbia University in the City of New York

Judicial Record

In our data, Crane authored 693 published opinions for the court (1917–1939), plus 110 dissents and 39 concurrences. Most cited: Berkey v. Third Avenue Railway Co. (322 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. 15 of these were attributed to Crane 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
1926	Berkey v. Third Avenue Railway Co.· Dissent	155 N.E. 58	322
1934	New York Life Insurance v. Fulton Development Corp.	193 N.E. 169	283
1931	James v. Alderton Dock Yards, Ltd.	176 N.E. 401	250
1932	People v. Grogan	183 N.E. 273	240
1929	Marchant v. Mead-Morrison Manufacturing Co.· Dissent	169 N.E. 386	229
1937	Brick v. Cohn-Hall-Marx Co.	11 N.E.2d 902	211
1929	Adler v. Deegan	167 N.E. 705	182
1927	Exchange Bakery & Restaurant, Inc. v. Rifkin· Dissent	157 N.E. 130	171
1935	Galbraith v. Busch· Dissent	196 N.E. 36	170
1933	In Re the Accounting of the United States Trust Co.	186 N.E. 787	170
1938	Westchester Lighting Co. v. Westchester County Small Estates Corp.· Dissent	15 N.E.2d 567	164
1927	People v. Gowasky	155 N.E. 737	153
1923	Matter of Zimmerman v. . Cohen	139 N.E. 764	151
1938	Matter of Andresen v. Rice	14 N.E.2d 65	150
1931	Matter of Doyle· Concurrence	177 N.E. 489	145

Showing the 15 most-cited of 842 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 Frederick E. Crane on?: Frederick E. Crane was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.

Sources

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22 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).