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 1862 / Served to 1865

Henry Rogers Selden

Judge, New York Court of Appeals

Henry Rogers Selden was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1862. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1805–1885
Tenure: 1862–1865 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1862	New York Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Selden authored 160 published opinions for the court (1854–1864), plus 10 dissents and 32 concurrences. Most cited: Griffin v. . Colver (261 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. 14 of these were attributed to Selden 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
1858	Griffin v. . Colver	16 N.Y. 489	261
1857	Curtis and Others v. . Leavitt· Dissent	15 N.Y. 9	227
1856	Wynehamer v. . the People· Dissent	13 N.Y. 378	208
1860	Lampman v. . Milks	21 N.Y. 505	190
1857	Williamson v. . Brown	15 N.Y. 354	179
1860	Bissell v. Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana Railroad Companies· Concurrence	22 N.Y. 258	122
1856	Tracy v. . Talmage	14 N.Y. 162	121
1857	Williams v. . the New-York Central Railroad Company	16 N.Y. 97	118
1860	Quimbo Appo v. . the People	20 N.Y. 531	109
1863	People Ex Rel. Smith v. Pease· Concurrence	27 N.Y. 45	106
1859	Curtis v. . Rochester and Syracuse Railroad Company	18 N.Y. 534	104
1862	Gillespie v. . Torrance	25 N.Y. 306	100
1860	Hoe v. . Sanborn	21 N.Y. 552	100
1861	Nichols v. . Michael· Concurrence	23 N.Y. 264	97
1857	McKyring v. . Bull	16 N.Y. 297	96

Showing the 15 most-cited of 204 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 Henry Rogers Selden on?: Henry Rogers Selden was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.

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3 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).