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 1940 / Served to 1945

Irving Lehman

Judge, New York Court of Appeals

Irving Lehman was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1940. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1876–1945
Tenure: 1940–1945 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1940	New York Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Columbia University in the City of New York

Judicial Record

In our data, Lehman authored 609 published opinions for the court (1924–1945), plus 103 dissents and 22 concurrences. Most cited: Matter of Stork Restaurant, Inc. v. Boland (425 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. 2 of these were attributed to Lehman 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
1940	Matter of Stork Restaurant, Inc. v. Boland	26 N.E.2d 247	425
1942	Rockland Light and Power Co. v. City of New York	43 N.E.2d 803	398
1936	Schmidt v. Merchants Despatch Transportation Co.	200 N.E. 824	383
1939	Matter of Otto v. Steinhilber· Dissent	24 N.E.2d 851	278
1943	People Ex Rel. MacCracken v. Miller	50 N.E.2d 542	275
1938	Arverne Bay Construction Co. v. Thatcher	15 N.E.2d 587	257
1944	Blum v. Fresh Grown Preserve Corp.	54 N.E.2d 809	233
1941	George Foltis, Inc. v. City of New York	38 N.E.2d 455	227
1940	Goldman v. Goldman	26 N.E.2d 265	217
1931	Dowsey v. Village of Kensington	177 N.E. 427	192
1938	Neponsit Property Owners' Ass'n v. Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank	15 N.E.2d 793	182
1929	Adler v. Deegan· Dissent	167 N.E. 705	182
1926	Matter of Larkin Co. v. Schwab	151 N.E. 637	172
1935	Galbraith v. Busch	196 N.E. 36	170
1937	Newman v. Dore	9 N.E.2d 966	155

Showing the 15 most-cited of 734 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 Irving Lehman on?: Irving Lehman was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.

Sources

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5 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).