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 1935 / Served to 1952

John B. Johnston

Justice, New York Appellate Division

John B. Johnston was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1935. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1882–1960
Tenure: 1935–1952 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1935	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Johnston authored 80 published opinions for the court (1935–1952), plus 22 dissents. Most cited: Mills v. Gabriel (57 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. 102 of these were attributed to Johnston 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	Mills v. Gabriel†	259 A.D. 60	57
1951	In re the Arbitration between Minkin & Halperin†	279 A.D. 226	36
1942	Thomas v. Board of Standards & Appeals†	263 A.D. 352	35
1937	In re Corrigan†	251 A.D. 337	31
1944	People v. Sciascia· Dissent†	268 A.D. 14	30
1945	Caulfield v. Elmhurst Contracting Co.†	268 A.D. 661	29
1937	Goodheart v. American Airlines, Inc.†	252 A.D. 660	28
1948	Nori v. City of Yonkers†	274 A.D. 545	24
1940	Enstrom v. City of New York†	258 A.D. 672	23
1943	Central Hanover Bank v. Roslyn Estates, Inc.†	266 A.D. 244	20
1951	In re the Investigation by the Regular Grand Jury†	278 A.D. 206	19
1937	People v. Silverman· Dissent†	252 A.D. 149	19
1946	Fisk Discount Corp. v. Brooklyn Taxicab Trans. Co.†	270 A.D. 491	18
1943	Westchester County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Inc. v. Mengel†	266 A.D. 151	18
1937	People v. Weiss†	252 A.D. 463	18

Showing the 15 most-cited of 102 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 John B. Johnston on?: John B. Johnston was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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17 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).