How do judges of the New York Court of Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Court of Appeals / Joined 1855 / Served to 1855

Gilbert Dean

Judge, New York Court of Appeals

Gilbert Dean was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1855. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1819–1870
Tenure: 1855–1855

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1855	New York Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Dean authored 9 published opinions for the court (1855), plus 3 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Town of Guilford v. . the Supervisors of Chenango County (103 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. 4 of these were attributed to Dean 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
1855	Town of Guilford v. . the Supervisors of Chenango County	13 N.Y. 143	103
1855	Noel v. . Murray· Concurrence	13 N.Y. 167	47
1855	Barry v. . Ransom· Concurrence	12 N.Y. 462	31
1855	Chappel v. . Chappel· Concurrence	12 N.Y. 215	31
1855	Renard v. . Sampson	12 N.Y. 561	22
1855	Tobias v. . Rogers· Dissent	13 N.Y. 59	13
1855	Russell v. . Allen· Concurrence	13 N.Y. 173	10
1855	Brigham v. . Tillinghast	13 N.Y. 215	8
1855	Esselstyn v. . Weeks· Dissent	12 N.Y. 635	8
1855	Clarkson v. . the Hudson River Railroad Co.	12 N.Y. 304	4
1855	Low v. . Archer	12 N.Y. 277	1
1855	Caryl v. . Russell	13 N.Y. 194	0
1855	Esselstyn v. Weeks· Dissent†	2 N.Y. 635	0
1855	Renard v. Sampson†	2 N.Y. 561	0
1855	Low v. Archer†	2 N.Y. 277	0

Showing the 15 most-cited of 16 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 Gilbert Dean on?: Gilbert Dean was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.

Sources

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Joined the court in 1855. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).