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 1980 / Served to 1989

Moses M. Weinstein

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Moses M. Weinstein was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1980. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1912–2007
Tenure: 1980–1989 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1980	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Weinstein authored 54 published opinions for the court (1980–1988), plus 67 dissents and 28 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Sanders (250 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. 149 of these were attributed to Weinstein 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
1985	People v. Sanders· Dissent†	108 A.D.2d 316	250
1981	Gloria S. v. Richard B.†	80 A.D.2d 72	128
1986	McLaughlin v. Nolan†	114 A.D.2d 165	62
1988	Walter Karl, Inc. v. Wood†	137 A.D.2d 22	60
1984	Lum v. Antonelli†	102 A.D.2d 258	59
1987	In re Leslie K.†	132 A.D.2d 149	57
1984	Farm Stores, Inc. v. School Feeding Corp.†	102 A.D.2d 249	56
1983	Greenwich Mills Co. v. Barrie House Coffee Co.†	91 A.D.2d 398	47
1988	McGowan v. McGowan· Concurrence†	142 A.D.2d 355	46
1981	Pataki v. Kiseda†	80 A.D.2d 100	46
1987	Siegel v. Siegel†	132 A.D.2d 247	45
1985	Rosenblitt v. Rosenblitt†	107 A.D.2d 292	43
1988	Behrens v. Behrens· Concurrence†	143 A.D.2d 617	42
1983	Ames v. Smoot· Dissent†	98 A.D.2d 216	42
1983	People v. Bittner†	97 A.D.2d 33	42

Showing the 15 most-cited of 149 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 Moses M. Weinstein on?: Moses M. Weinstein was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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9 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).