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 1979 / Served to 1999

John J. Callahan

Justice, New York Appellate Division

John J. Callahan was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1979. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1979–1999 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1979	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Callahan authored 69 published opinions for the court (1979–1999), plus 86 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Allstate Insurance v. Klock Oil Co. (75 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. 156 of these were attributed to Callahan 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	Allstate Insurance v. Klock Oil Co.†	73 A.D.2d 486	75
1984	Nagel v. Metzger†	103 A.D.2d 1	61
1980	Town of Henrietta v. Department of Environmental Conservation†	76 A.D.2d 215	61
1995	Weller v. Colleges of Senecas†	217 A.D.2d 280	51
1995	Kula v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.†	212 A.D.2d 16	44
1979	Ziecker v. Town of Orchard Park†	70 A.D.2d 422	37
1996	Hartford Insurance v. Halt· Dissent†	223 A.D.2d 204	35
1987	LoDico v. Caputi†	129 A.D.2d 361	35
1984	Barnes v. County of Onondaga†	103 A.D.2d 624	34
1983	Tri-City Electric Co. v. People†	96 A.D.2d 146	34
1980	Wyoming County Bank & Trust Co. v. Kiley†	75 A.D.2d 477	31
1980	First Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Brown†	78 A.D.2d 119	29
1979	Oakley v. City of Rochester· Dissent†	71 A.D.2d 15	28
1999	Tillman v. Triou's Custom Homes, Inc.†	253 A.D.2d 254	27
1983	Azeem v. Colonial Assurance Co.· Dissent†	96 A.D.2d 123	26

Showing the 15 most-cited of 156 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 J. Callahan on?: John J. Callahan was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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20 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).