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 1956 / Served to 1960

Martin M. Frank

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Martin M. Frank was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1956. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1900–1960
Tenure: 1956–1960 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1956	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Frank authored 40 published opinions for the court (1956–1960), plus 40 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Di Sabato v. Soffes (173 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. 86 of these were attributed to Frank 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
1959	Di Sabato v. Soffes†	9 A.D.2d 297	173
1957	Lauritano v. American Fidelity Fire Insurance· Dissent†	3 A.D.2d 564	91
1959	In re the Estate of Schanzer†	7 A.D.2d 275	43
1958	Williams & Co. v. Collins Tuttle & Co.· Dissent†	6 A.D.2d 302	27
1959	Penn-Ohio Steel Corp. v. Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co.†	7 A.D.2d 441	26
1957	Ronson Art Metal Works Inc. v. Gibson Lighter Mfg. Co.†	3 A.D.2d 227	20
1957	Beedenbender v. Midtown Properties, Inc.· Concurrence†	4 A.D.2d 276	17
1958	Kaste v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co.· Concurrence†	5 A.D.2d 203	14
1960	Snyder Plumbing & Heating Corp. v. Purcell†	9 A.D.2d 505	13
1956	In re the Arbitration between Martin Weiner Co. & Fred Freund Co.†	2 A.D.2d 341	13
1960	People v. Diaz†	10 A.D.2d 80	11
1960	State v. Harvey· Dissent†	10 A.D.2d 691	10
1957	Mandle v. Brown· Dissent†	4 A.D.2d 283	10
1958	Townes v. Park Motor Sales, Inc.†	7 A.D.2d 109	9
1960	In re the Final Accounting of Guaranty Trust Co.†	10 A.D.2d 220	7

Showing the 15 most-cited of 86 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 M. Frank on?: Martin M. Frank was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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4 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).