How do judges of the New York Court of Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Court of Appeals / Joined 1932 / Served to 1936

Leonard C. Crouch

Judge, New York Court of Appeals

Leonard C. Crouch was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1932. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1932–1936 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1932	New York Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Crouch authored 90 published opinions for the court (1932–1936), plus 10 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Matter of N.Y. City H. Authority v. Muller (126 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 of these was attributed to Crouch 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
1936	Matter of N.Y. City H. Authority v. Muller	1 N.E.2d 153	126
1936	Mertz v. Mertz· Dissent	3 N.E.2d 597	116
1934	Fleckenstein v. Friedman	193 N.E. 537	109
1933	People v. Walsh	186 N.E. 422	108
1932	People v. Lewis	183 N.E. 353	102
1935	Carlisle v. Bennett	197 N.E. 220	88
1933	Kimmerle v. New York Evening Journal, Inc.	186 N.E. 217	88
1933	Fox v. Fox	188 N.E. 160	85
1936	Clark v. Dodge	199 N.E. 641	77
1932	Pierpoint v. Hoyt	182 N.E. 235	73
1935	Roddy v. Valentine	197 N.E. 260	70
1933	Koso v. Greene	184 N.E. 65	70
1935	Byrne v. Barrett	197 N.E. 217	63
1932	Smith v. Peerless Glass Co.	181 N.E. 576	60
1933	People v. Reddy	185 N.E. 705	56

Showing the 15 most-cited of 101 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 Leonard C. Crouch on?: Leonard C. Crouch was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.

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4 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).