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 1969 / Served to 1980

Louis M. Greenblott

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Louis M. Greenblott was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1969. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1919–2007
Tenure: 1969–1980 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1969	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Greenblott authored 303 published opinions for the court (1969–1980), plus 45 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Mduba v. Benedictine Hospital (153 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. 357 of these were attributed to Greenblott 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
1976	Mduba v. Benedictine Hospital†	52 A.D.2d 450	153
1974	Schenectady Steel Co. v. Bruno Trimpoli General Construction Co.· Concurrence†	43 A.D.2d 234	76
1975	Fonda v. Paulsen†	46 A.D.2d 540	62
1978	Gifford v. Harley†	62 A.D.2d 5	42
1976	Bodfish v. Gallman†	50 A.D.2d 457	32
1969	Davis v. Shelton†	33 A.D.2d 707	32
1978	Dupuis v. Van Natten†	61 A.D.2d 293	31
1973	In re the Probate of the Will of Elmore†	42 A.D.2d 240	30
1979	Caprara v. Chrysler Corp.†	71 A.D.2d 515	29
1976	Zuckerman v. New York State Board of Parole†	53 A.D.2d 405	28
1977	Greenspan v. Commerical Insurance Co. of Newark†	57 A.D.2d 387	27
1977	Claim of Perez v. Pearl-Wick Corp.†	56 A.D.2d 239	25
1975	Makoske v. Lombardy· Dissent†	47 A.D.2d 284	25
1975	Claim of Johnson v. State†	49 A.D.2d 136	21
1978	Meyer v. State Tax Commission†	61 A.D.2d 223	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 358 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 Louis M. Greenblott on?: Louis M. Greenblott was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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11 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).