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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Appellate Division / Joined 1981 / Served to 2001

Lawrence J. Bracken

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Lawrence J. Bracken was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1981. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1931 · age 95
Tenure: 1981–2001 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1981	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bracken authored 93 published opinions for the court (1981–2001), plus 13 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Udzinski (1,127 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. 112 of these were attributed to Bracken 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
1989	People v. Udzinski†	146 A.D.2d 245	1,127
1984	Caselli v. City of New York†	105 A.D.2d 251	196
1995	O'Brien v. Vassar Bros. Hospital†	207 A.D.2d 169	136
1995	People v. Richie†	217 A.D.2d 84	102
1990	People v. Sullivan†	153 A.D.2d 223	96
1986	Iannelli v. Powers†	114 A.D.2d 157	76
1989	Roldan v. Allstate Insurance†	149 A.D.2d 20	73
1985	Gabrelian v. Gabrelian†	108 A.D.2d 445	72
1988	Key International Manufacturing, Inc. v. Morse/Diesel, Inc.†	142 A.D.2d 448	69
1992	Johnson v. Johnson Chemical Co.†	183 A.D.2d 64	63
1988	People v. Dyla†	142 A.D.2d 423	54
1990	Ober v. Hilton†	159 A.D.2d 16	53
1989	Menorah Nursing Home, Inc. v. Zukov†	153 A.D.2d 13	52
1994	People v. Senisi†	196 A.D.2d 376	49
1999	In re Shah†	258 A.D.2d 275	47

Showing the 15 most-cited of 113 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 Lawrence J. Bracken on?: Lawrence J. Bracken 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).