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 1974 / Served to 1987

J Robert Lynch

Justice, New York Appellate Division

J Robert Lynch was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1974. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1921 · age 105
Tenure: 1974–1987 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1974	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Lynch authored 52 published opinions for the court (1974–2025), plus 26 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Knieriemen v. Bache Halsey Stuart Shields Inc. (53 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. 51 of these were attributed to Lynch 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	Knieriemen v. Bache Halsey Stuart Shields Inc.†	74 A.D.2d 290	53
1986	Gerzel v. City of New York· Dissent†	117 A.D.2d 549	50
1979	Jarrett v. Madifari· Dissent†	67 A.D.2d 396	26
1982	After Six, Inc. v. 201 East 66th Street Associates· Dissent†	87 A.D.2d 153	24
1984	West Side Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Hirschfeld†	101 A.D.2d 380	21
2020	People v. Caden N.	189 A.D.3d 84	15
1984	People v. De Jesus· Dissent†	101 A.D.2d 111	14
1979	People v. Marrero· Dissent†	71 A.D.2d 346	13
1977	Orange & Rockland Utilities, Inc. v. New England Petroleum Corp.†	60 A.D.2d 233	13
1974	People v. Rodriguez†	45 A.D.2d 41	12
1982	S & S Media, Inc. v. Vango Media, Inc.· Dissent†	84 A.D.2d 356	11
1980	Karmilowicz v. Allstate Insurance†	77 A.D.2d 131	11
1982	In re Bank of New York†	85 A.D.2d 342	10
1980	People v. Adams· Dissent†	72 A.D.2d 156	10
1986	Rubin v. Rubin†	119 A.D.2d 152	9

Showing the 15 most-cited of 81 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 Robert Lynch on?: J Robert Lynch was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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13 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).