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 1967 / Served to 1978

M H. Martuscello

Judge, New York Court of Appeals

M H. Martuscello was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1967. He previously served on the New York Appellate Division. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1908–1980
Tenure: 1967–1978 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1967	New York Appellate Division	–	–
1967	New York Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Brooklyn Law School

Judicial Record

In our data, Martuscello authored 20 published opinions for the court (1969–1978), plus 15 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: AMF Inc. v. Algo Distributors, Ltd. (52 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. 34 of these were attributed to Martuscello 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
1975	AMF Inc. v. Algo Distributors, Ltd.†	48 A.D.2d 352	52
1976	Kletnieks v. Brookhaven Memorial Ass'n†	53 A.D.2d 169	44
1975	District Attorney v. Angelo G.· Dissent†	48 A.D.2d 576	41
1975	Vastola v. Maer· Dissent†	48 A.D.2d 561	33
1975	Zeleznik v. Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital†	47 A.D.2d 199	30
1978	People v. Mandel· Dissent†	61 A.D.2d 563	28
1974	Our Lady of Good Counsel Roman Catholic Church & School v. Ball†	45 A.D.2d 66	23
1975	Koutrakos v. Long Island College Hospital	47 A.D.2d 500	22
1972	Anchor Alloys, Inc. v. Non-Ferrous Processing Corp.†	39 A.D.2d 504	18
1977	American Metal Finishers, Inc. v. Palleschi†	55 A.D.2d 499	16
1976	Livoti v. Elston· Dissent†	52 A.D.2d 444	15
1975	People v. Earl†	50 A.D.2d 289	12
1975	In re Ray A. M.· Dissent†	48 A.D.2d 161	12
1973	Ballas v. McKiernan†	41 A.D.2d 131	12
1969	People ex rel. Meltsner v. Follette· Dissent†	32 A.D.2d 389	10

Showing the 15 most-cited of 36 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 M H. Martuscello on?: M H. Martuscello was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.

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11 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).