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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Appellate Division / Joined 1948 / Served to 1959

Henry G. Wenzel Jr.

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Henry G. Wenzel Jr. was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1948. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1889–1960
Tenure: 1948–1959 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1948	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Wenzel authored 18 published opinions for the court (1948–1959), plus 10 dissents. Most cited: De Veau v. Braisted (26 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. 28 of these were attributed to Wenzel 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
1958	De Veau v. Braisted†	5 A.D.2d 603	26
1958	Kaufman v. American Youth Hostels, Inc.†	6 A.D.2d 223	23
1957	Madden v. Atkins†	4 A.D.2d 1	14
1956	Petruk v. South Ferry Realty Co.†	2 A.D.2d 533	14
1956	Blatnicky v. Ciancimino†	1 A.D.2d 383	14
1959	Naphtali v. Lafazan†	8 A.D.2d 22	13
1959	Snow v. Snow· Dissent†	8 A.D.2d 516	8
1952	People v. Fichther· Dissent†	281 A.D. 159	8
1959	People v. Hill†	9 A.D.2d 451	6
1957	In re the Accounting of Barnett†	3 A.D.2d 119	6
1958	Martin v. Martin†	5 A.D.2d 307	5
1957	Rector v. Melish†	4 A.D.2d 256	5
1951	Rudyk v. Rudyk· Dissent†	278 A.D. 837	5
1957	Rose v. Indian Park Ass'n†	3 A.D.2d 274	3
1957	Cahill v. Regan· Dissent†	4 A.D.2d 328	2

Showing the 15 most-cited of 28 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 Henry G. Wenzel Jr. on?: Henry G. Wenzel Jr. was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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11 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).