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 1948 / Served to 1951

Martin W. Deyo

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Martin W. Deyo was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1948. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1948–1951 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1948	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Deyo authored 45 published opinions for the court (1948–1951), plus 6 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Skakandy v. State (27 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. 53 of these were attributed to Deyo 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
1948	Skakandy v. State†	274 A.D. 153	27
1951	Van Dyke v. Van Dyke†	278 A.D. 446	26
1948	Barbato v. Vollmer†	273 A.D. 169	9
1948	Goodrich v. Ross-Ketchum Co.†	274 A.D. 157	8
1948	Rubin v. Conway†	273 A.D. 559	8
1951	Rinas v. Duryea†	278 A.D. 419	6
1948	In re the Estate of McCredy†	274 A.D. 363	6
1948	Claim of Pestlin v. Haxton Canning Co.†	274 A.D. 144	6
1948	Holt v. Fidelity Phoenix Fire Insurance†	273 A.D. 166	6
1951	Claim of Oddi v. Cabaret Hurricane†	278 A.D. 261	5
1948	Tracy v. Wm. J. Kline & Son, Inc.†	274 A.D. 149	4
1948	People ex rel. New York, Ontario & Western Railway Co. v. Rosenshein†	274 A.D. 396	3
1949	Central Greyhound Lines, Inc. v. Graves†	274 A.D. 679	2
1948	Kutun v. Kranz†	274 A.D. 365	2
1948	Dumary v. Village of Athens†	273 A.D. 145	2

Showing the 15 most-cited of 53 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 Martin W. Deyo on?: Martin W. Deyo was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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3 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).