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 1937 / Served to 1955

Joseph M. Callahan

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Joseph M. Callahan was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1937. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1885–1973
Tenure: 1937–1955 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1937	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Callahan authored 407 published opinions for the court (1937–1955), plus 116 dissents and 18 concurrences. Most cited: Tipaldi v. Riverside Memorial Chapel, Inc. (86 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. 541 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
1948	Tipaldi v. Riverside Memorial Chapel, Inc.†	273 A.D. 414	86
1955	In re the Arbitration between Spectrum Fabrics Corp. & Main Street Fashions, Inc.· Dissent†	285 A.D. 710	57
1945	Gottfried v. Gottfried†	269 A.D. 413	39
1954	Brandt v. Winchell†	283 A.D. 338	37
1947	Rubenstein v. Small†	273 A.D. 102	35
1940	Karpf v. Karpf†	260 A.D. 701	31
1943	Sachs v. Cluett, Peabody & Co.· Concurrence†	265 A.D. 497	30
1939	Strauss v. Hannig†	256 A.D. 662	30
1946	Kleinfeld v. Roburn Agencies, Inc.†	270 A.D. 509	29
1942	Levy v. American Beverage Corp.†	265 A.D. 208	29
1948	Mazarredo v. Levine†	274 A.D. 122	28
1940	Karminski v. Karminski†	260 A.D. 491	28
1940	People ex rel. Glendening v. Glendening· Dissent†	259 A.D. 384	27
1938	Morris v. Cashmore†	253 A.D. 657	27
1939	Berkowitz v. New York Life Insurance†	256 A.D. 324	26

Showing the 15 most-cited of 541 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 Joseph M. Callahan on?: Joseph M. Callahan 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).