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 1968 / Served to 1985

Matthew Joseph Jasen

Judge, New York Court of Appeals

Matthew Joseph Jasen was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1968. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1915–2006
Tenure: 1968–1985 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1968	New York Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Canisius College

Judicial Record

In our data, Jasen authored 426 published opinions for the court (1968–1985), plus 237 dissents and 42 concurrences. Most cited: Eschbach v. Eschbach (2,938 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. 681 of these were attributed to Jasen 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
1982	Eschbach v. Eschbach†	56 N.Y.2d 167	2,938
1983	People v. Harris†	61 N.Y.2d 9	1,537
1984	Ryan v. New York Telephone Co.†	62 N.Y.2d 494	1,052
1983	Parochial Bus Systems, Inc. v. Board of Education†	60 N.Y.2d 539	909
1969	People v. Yukl†	25 N.Y.2d 585	893
1981	Akins v. Glens Falls City School District†	53 N.Y.2d 325	822
1982	Licari v. Elliott†	57 N.Y.2d 230	773
1976	People v. Hobson· Concurrence†	39 N.Y.2d 479	737
1969	People ex rel. Klein v. Krueger· Dissent†	25 N.Y.2d 497	695
1981	W. T. Grant Co. v. Srogi†	52 N.Y.2d 496	650
1980	People v. Howard· Dissent†	50 N.Y.2d 583	648
1983	People v. Pavao†	59 N.Y.2d 282	601
1984	Seaboard Surety Co. v. Gillette Co.†	64 N.Y.2d 304	551
1980	Kurcsics v. Merchants Mutual Insurance†	49 N.Y.2d 451	545
1976	Port Chester Electrical Construction Corp. v. Atlas†	40 N.Y.2d 652	510

Showing the 15 most-cited of 705 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 Matthew Joseph Jasen on?: Matthew Joseph Jasen was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.

Sources

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17 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).