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 1970 / Served to 1979

J Irwin Shapiro

Justice, New York Appellate Division

J Irwin Shapiro was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1970. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1905–1985
Tenure: 1970–1979 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1970	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Shapiro authored 170 published opinions for the court (1971–1979), plus 32 dissents and 17 concurrences. Most cited: Carter v. Carter (65 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. 218 of these were attributed to Shapiro 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
1977	Carter v. Carter†	58 A.D.2d 438	65
1975	People v. Bryant†	47 A.D.2d 51	48
1974	Zillman v. Meadowbrook Hospital Co.†	45 A.D.2d 267	47
1972	People v. Felder†	39 A.D.2d 373	40
1975	Tonetti v. Penati†	48 A.D.2d 25	38
1973	Ellish v. Airport Parking Co. of America, Inc.· Dissent†	42 A.D.2d 174	36
1972	Tamimi v. Tamimi†	38 A.D.2d 197	35
1976	Johnson v. Director, Downstate Medical Center†	52 A.D.2d 357	34
1974	Peoples Savings Bank v. County Dollar Corp.†	43 A.D.2d 327	34
1979	People v. Newson†	68 A.D.2d 377	33
1976	Barry v. Manglass†	55 A.D.2d 1	33
1975	Johnson v. New York City Health & Hospitals Corp.†	49 A.D.2d 234	31
1974	People v. Francis· Dissent†	45 A.D.2d 431	31
1973	Zellman v. Metropolitan Transportation Authority†	40 A.D.2d 248	31
1978	Rosenfeld v. A. H. Robins Co.· Dissent†	63 A.D.2d 11	30

Showing the 15 most-cited of 219 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 Irwin Shapiro on?: J Irwin Shapiro was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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9 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).