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 1997

John T. Casey

Justice, New York Appellate Division

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

Tenure: 1979–1997 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Casey authored 1,768 published opinions for the court (1972–1997), plus 72 dissents and 42 concurrences. Most cited: Compass Adjusters & Investigators, Inc. v. Commissioner of Taxation & Finance (251 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. 1,881 of these were attributed to Casey 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
1994	Compass Adjusters & Investigators, Inc. v. Commissioner of Taxation & Finance†	197 A.D.2d 38	251
1994	People v. Bowers†	201 A.D.2d 830	215
1992	Coutu v. Exchange Insurance†	174 A.D.2d 241	137
1986	Mesick v. State· Dissent†	118 A.D.2d 214	78
1983	Boyles v. Boyles†	95 A.D.2d 95	60
1995	Irwin v. Neyland†	213 A.D.2d 773	59
1995	People v. Kindlon†	217 A.D.2d 793	55
1991	Hudson-Port Ewen Associates, L.P. v. Chien Kuo†	165 A.D.2d 301	48
1995	Beesimer v. Albany Avenue/Route 9 Realty, Inc.†	216 A.D.2d 853	47
1996	Key Bank v. Grossi†	227 A.D.2d 841	43
1993	In re Jamie TT.· Concurrence†	191 A.D.2d 132	38
1989	Serrano v. Coughlin†	152 A.D.2d 790	38
1991	Transamerica Commercial Finance Corp. v. Matthews†	178 A.D.2d 691	37
1997	Saratoga Spa & Bath, Inc. v. Beeche Systems Corp.†	230 A.D.2d 326	36
1997	In re Jennifer VV.†	241 A.D.2d 622	35

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,882 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 T. Casey on?: John T. Casey was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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18 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).