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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Court of Appeals / Joined 1945 / Served to 1965

Marvin Rood Dye

Judge, New York Court of Appeals

Marvin Rood Dye was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1945. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1895–1997
Tenure: 1945–1965 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1945	New York Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Cornell University

Judicial Record

In our data, Dye authored 161 published opinions for the court (1945–1965), plus 86 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Lanza v. Wagner (1,904 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. 203 of these were attributed to Dye 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
1962	Lanza v. Wagner· Dissent†	11 N.Y.2d 317	1,904
1961	Valdimer v. Mount Vernon Hebrew Camps, Inc.†	9 N.Y.2d 21	276
1955	People v. Salemi†	309 N.Y. 208	243
1957	Bethlehem Steel Co. v. Turner Construction Co.†	2 N.Y.2d 456	209
1953	Mencher v. Weiss· Dissent†	306 N.Y. 1	189
1954	Vernon Park Realty, Inc. v. City of Mount Vernon†	307 N.Y. 493	143
1949	Matter of Bojinoff v. People	85 N.E.2d 909	134
1949	People v. Sadness	89 N.E.2d 188	125
1951	Goodwins, Inc. v. Hagedorn· Dissent†	303 N.Y. 300	112
1950	Clark v. Board of Zoning Appeals of the Hempstead· Dissent†	301 N.Y. 86	107
1953	Morgan v. Greater New York Taxpayers Mutual Insurance· Dissent†	305 N.Y. 243	101
1950	Broderick v. Cauldwell-Wingate Co.†	301 N.Y. 182	101
1949	Ohman v. Board of Educ. of City of N.Y.	90 N.E.2d 474	98
1960	People v. Di Biasi· Dissent†	7 N.Y.2d 544	92
1961	In re Arbitration between Exercycle Corp. & Maratta· Dissent†	9 N.Y.2d 329	83

Showing the 15 most-cited of 252 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 Marvin Rood Dye on?: Marvin Rood Dye was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.

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20 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).