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 1974 / Served to 1983

Jacob D. Fuchsberg

Judge, New York Court of Appeals

Jacob D. Fuchsberg was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1974. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1913–1995
Tenure: 1974–1983 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1974	New York Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Polytechnic Institute of New York University

Judicial Record

In our data, Fuchsberg authored 231 published opinions for the court (1975–1983), plus 126 dissents and 64 concurrences. Most cited: People v. De Bour (2,736 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. 404 of these were attributed to Fuchsberg 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
1976	People v. De Bour· Dissent†	40 N.Y.2d 210	2,736
1981	People v. Galloway†	54 N.Y.2d 396	1,342
1976	Bennett v. Jeffreys· Concurrence†	40 N.Y.2d 543	1,182
1981	Legal Aid Society of Sullivan County, Inc. v. Scheinman· Dissent†	53 N.Y.2d 12	916
1975	Martin v. City of Cohoes†	37 N.Y.2d 162	637
1978	Rotuba Extruders, Inc. v. Ceppos†	46 N.Y.2d 223	625
1979	People v. Gissendanner†	48 N.Y.2d 543	590
1980	Robinson v. Reed-Prentice Division of Package Machinery Co.· Dissent†	49 N.Y.2d 471	586
1982	Weiner v. McGraw-Hill, Inc.†	57 N.Y.2d 458	482
1978	Watergate II Apartments v. Buffalo Sewer Authority†	46 N.Y.2d 52	477
1979	Riviello v. Waldron†	47 N.Y.2d 297	476
1978	Becker v. Schwartz· Concurrence†	46 N.Y.2d 401	460
1980	People v. Thomas· Concurrence†	50 N.Y.2d 467	449
1980	People v. McRay· Concurrence†	51 N.Y.2d 594	439
1981	Joseph Martin, Jr., Delicatessen, Inc. v. Schumacher	52 N.Y.2d 105	410

Showing the 15 most-cited of 421 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 Jacob D. Fuchsberg on?: Jacob D. Fuchsberg was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.

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9 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).