How do judges of the New York Appellate Division reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Appellate Division / Joined 1958 / Served to 1981

J Clarence Herlihy

Justice, New York Appellate Division

J Clarence Herlihy was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1958. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1905–1985
Tenure: 1958–1981 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1958	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Herlihy authored 765 published opinions for the court (1958–1981), plus 147 dissents and 76 concurrences. Most cited: New York Life Insurance v. State Tax Commission (288 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. 987 of these were attributed to Herlihy 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
1981	New York Life Insurance v. State Tax Commission· Dissent†	80 A.D.2d 675	288
1974	People v. Chestnut· Concurrence†	43 A.D.2d 260	70
1978	Sessa v. State· Dissent†	63 A.D.2d 334	41
1979	Nassau Roofing & Sheet Metal Co. v. Facilities Development Corp.· Dissent†	70 A.D.2d 1021	33
1978	Allen v. Canadian General Electric Co.†	65 A.D.2d 39	30
1976	Dunlea v. Goldmark†	54 A.D.2d 446	30
1970	Guptill Holding Corp. v. State†	33 A.D.2d 362	30
1980	Struble v. John Arborio, Inc.†	74 A.D.2d 55	27
1980	Lattanzi v. State· Dissent†	74 A.D.2d 378	26
1978	Auburn Police Local 195 v. Helsby†	62 A.D.2d 12	26
1977	Mead v. Warner Pruyn Division†	57 A.D.2d 340	25
1975	Makoske v. Lombardy· Concurrence†	47 A.D.2d 284	25
1980	Hyman v. Hillelson· Concurrence†	79 A.D.2d 725	24
1976	Blair v. Five Points Shopping Plaza, Inc.†	51 A.D.2d 167	24
1977	Brooks v. City of Binghamton†	55 A.D.2d 482	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 988 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 J Clarence Herlihy on?: J Clarence Herlihy was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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23 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).