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 1973 / Served to 1984

Hugh Richard Jones

Judge, New York Court of Appeals

Hugh Richard Jones was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1973. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1914–2001
Tenure: 1973–1984 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1973	New York Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Jones authored 267 published opinions for the court (1973–1984), plus 75 dissents and 22 concurrences. Most cited: Zuckerman v. City of New York (8,959 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. 351 of these were attributed to Jones 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
1980	Zuckerman v. City of New York†	49 N.Y.2d 557	8,959
1975	People v. Crimmins†	36 N.Y.2d 230	6,387
1976	In re Aho†	39 N.Y.2d 241	5,625
1974	People v. Sandoval†	34 N.Y.2d 371	2,008
1983	Murphy v. American Home Products Corp.†	58 N.Y.2d 293	1,284
1981	Legal Aid Society of Sullivan County, Inc. v. Scheinman†	53 N.Y.2d 12	916
1979	People ex rel. Rosenthal v. Wolfson†	48 N.Y.2d 230	674
1979	Auerbach v. Bennett†	47 N.Y.2d 619	638
1980	People v. Scarborough†	49 N.Y.2d 364	484
1979	Riviello v. Waldron· Concurrence†	47 N.Y.2d 297	476
1980	Guard-Life Corp. v. S. Parker Hardware Manufacturing Corp.	50 N.Y.2d 183	445
1976	People v. Patterson· Concurrence†	39 N.Y.2d 288	442
1973	Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Wesolowski†	33 N.Y.2d 169	404
1982	People v. Petgen†	55 N.Y.2d 529	384
1975	Montgomery v. Daniels†	38 N.Y.2d 41	373

Showing the 15 most-cited of 364 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 Hugh Richard Jones on?: Hugh Richard Jones was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.

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11 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).