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 1937 / Served to 1953

Marsh N. Taylor

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Marsh N. Taylor was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1937. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1883–1953
Tenure: 1937–1953 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1937	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Taylor authored 67 published opinions for the court (1937–1953), plus 24 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Wolfson v. Syracuse Newspapers, Inc. (42 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. 94 of these were attributed to Taylor 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
1938	Wolfson v. Syracuse Newspapers, Inc.· Dissent†	254 A.D. 211	42
1938	In re Matthews†	255 A.D. 80	37
1942	Thomas v. Board of Standards & Appeals· Dissent†	263 A.D. 352	35
1941	Price v. Spielman Motor Sales Co.· Dissent†	261 A.D. 626	30
1939	In re National City Bank· Dissent†	258 A.D. 64	28
1937	People v. Koch†	250 A.D. 623	28
1940	City of New York v. Coney Island Fire Department of Gravesend†	259 A.D. 286	18
1937	People v. Weiss· Dissent†	252 A.D. 463	18
1953	People v. Burch†	281 A.D. 348	16
1943	Colonial Operating Corp. v. Hannan Sales & Service, Inc.†	265 A.D. 411	15
1940	Wilcox v. Smith†	259 A.D. 36	15
1937	In re the Probate of the Alleged Last Will & Testament of Henderson†	253 A.D. 140	15
1939	Pine v. Okoniewski†	256 A.D. 519	14
1953	Bator v. Barry†	282 A.D. 324	13
1939	Rosenbloom v. Maryland Insurance†	258 A.D. 14	13

Showing the 15 most-cited of 94 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 Marsh N. Taylor on?: Marsh N. Taylor was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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16 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).