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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Court of Appeals / Joined 1966 / Served to 1969

Kenneth B. Keating

Judge, New York Court of Appeals

Kenneth B. Keating was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1966. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1900–1975
Tenure: 1966–1969 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1966	New York Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Keating authored 123 published opinions for the court (1966–1969), plus 29 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: Schwartz v. Public Administrator (773 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. 158 of these were attributed to Keating 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
1969	Schwartz v. Public Administrator†	24 N.Y.2d 65	773
1969	Tobin v. Grossman· Dissent†	24 N.Y.2d 609	302
1969	Fleming v. Ponziani†	24 N.Y.2d 105	300
1969	Lincoln v. Lincoln†	24 N.Y.2d 270	290
1968	Riss v. City of New York· Dissent†	22 N.Y.2d 579	216
1966	Walkovszky v. Carlton· Dissent†	18 N.Y.2d 414	210
1969	Flanagan v. Mount Eden General Hospital†	24 N.Y.2d 427	200
1967	People v. Rodney P.(Anonymous)	21 N.Y.2d 1	196
1968	Miller v. Miller†	22 N.Y.2d 12	189
1968	Millington v. Southeastern Elevator Co.†	22 N.Y.2d 498	180
1969	People v. Mirenda†	23 N.Y.2d 439	157
1968	People v. Boback†	23 N.Y.2d 189	148
1969	Tooker v. Lopez†	24 N.Y.2d 569	140
1968	Toth v. Community Hospital†	22 N.Y.2d 255	140
1967	People v. De Lucia†	20 N.Y.2d 275	127

Showing the 15 most-cited of 167 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 Kenneth B. Keating on?: Kenneth B. Keating was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.

Sources

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3 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).