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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Court of Appeals / Joined 1985 / Served to 1992

Fritz Winfred Alexander II

Judge, New York Court of Appeals

Fritz Winfred Alexander II was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1926–2000
Tenure: 1985–1992 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1985	New York Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Dartmouth College
Polytechnic Institute of New York University

Judicial Record

In our data, Alexander authored 113 published opinions for the court (1985–1992), plus 23 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Alvarez v. Prospect Hospital (8,793 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. 134 of these were attributed to Alexander 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
1986	Alvarez v. Prospect Hospital†	68 N.Y.2d 320	8,793
1988	People v. Lopez†	71 N.Y.2d 662	3,293
1987	Clark-Fitzpatrick, Inc. v. Long Island Rail Road†	70 N.Y.2d 382	1,648
1986	Rush v. Mordue†	68 N.Y.2d 348	1,252
1990	People v. Chipp†	75 N.Y.2d 327	936
1986	People v. Gonzalez†	68 N.Y.2d 424	887
1985	Zimmer v. Chemung County Performing Arts, Inc.	65 N.Y.2d 513	634
1986	People v. Keindl†	68 N.Y.2d 410	627
1986	People v. Sinistaj· Dissent†	67 N.Y.2d 236	544
1988	People v. Hudy· Concurrence†	73 N.Y.2d 40	543
1986	Friedman v. State of New York†	67 N.Y.2d 271	496
1989	Block v. Ambach†	73 N.Y.2d 323	392
1991	Scherbyn v. Wayne-Finger Lakes Board of Cooperative Educational Services†	77 N.Y.2d 753	355
1991	Fitzpatrick v. American Honda Motor Co.· Dissent†	78 N.Y.2d 61	342
1992	People v. Manini†	79 N.Y.2d 561	340

Showing the 15 most-cited of 141 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 Fritz Winfred Alexander II on?: Fritz Winfred Alexander II was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.

Sources

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7 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).