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 1981 / Served to 1994

Leonard A. Weiss

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Leonard A. Weiss was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1981. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1981–1994 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Weiss authored 1,181 published opinions for the court (1981–1994), plus 27 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Felman (440 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. 1,221 of these were attributed to Weiss 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
1988	People v. Felman†	141 A.D.2d 889	440
1982	Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. v. City School District of City of Troy· Dissent†	88 A.D.2d 167	245
1984	State v. Schenectady Chemicals, Inc.†	103 A.D.2d 33	60
1992	Chasin v. Chasin†	182 A.D.2d 862	59
1992	RKB Enterprises, Inc. v. Ernst & Young†	182 A.D.2d 971	56
1990	Mathiesen v. Mead†	168 A.D.2d 736	56
1983	Vogel v. West Mountain Corp.†	97 A.D.2d 46	50
1991	Padula v. Big V Supermarkets, Inc.†	173 A.D.2d 1094	48
1991	Grasso v. Mathew†	164 A.D.2d 476	46
1987	Cepeda v. Coughlin†	128 A.D.2d 995	46
1992	Stephens v. Tucker†	184 A.D.2d 828	43
1985	Klimek v. Town of Ghent†	114 A.D.2d 614	43
1987	McGill v. Caldors, Inc.†	135 A.D.2d 1041	38
1984	Mix v. Neff†	99 A.D.2d 180	37
1987	Wing v. Coyne†	129 A.D.2d 213	35

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,223 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 Leonard A. Weiss on?: Leonard A. Weiss was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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13 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).