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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Appellate Division / Joined 1974 / Served to 1992

Paul J. Yesawich Jr.

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Paul J. Yesawich Jr. was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1974. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1923 · age 103
Tenure: 1974–1992 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1974	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Yesawich authored 865 published opinions for the court (1974–1992), plus 54 dissents and 18 concurrences. Most cited: First National Bank v. Mountain Food Enterprises, Inc. (56 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. 936 of these were attributed to Yesawich 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
1990	First National Bank v. Mountain Food Enterprises, Inc.†	159 A.D.2d 900	56
1990	Lenigan v. Lenigan†	159 A.D.2d 108	49
1991	Hudson-Port Ewen Associates, L.P. v. Chien Kuo· Dissent†	165 A.D.2d 301	48
1989	Shrauger v. Shrauger†	146 A.D.2d 955	44
1988	Brown v. Bethlehem Terrace Associates†	136 A.D.2d 222	43
1976	Coolite Corp. v. American Cyanamid Co.†	52 A.D.2d 486	43
1977	Bichler v. Willing†	58 A.D.2d 331	42
1985	Nolan v. Nolan†	107 A.D.2d 190	40
1986	Lischynsky v. Lischynsky†	120 A.D.2d 824	38
1991	Schaadt v. T. W. Kutter, Inc.†	169 A.D.2d 969	36
1986	Camperlengo v. Perales†	120 A.D.2d 883	35
1986	People v. Demming†	116 A.D.2d 886	33
1991	Siddiqui v. Commissioner†	170 A.D.2d 922	31
1983	Borden v. Brady· Concurrence†	92 A.D.2d 983	30
1989	State v. New York Central Mutual Fire Insurance†	147 A.D.2d 77	29

Showing the 15 most-cited of 937 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 Paul J. Yesawich Jr. on?: Paul J. Yesawich Jr. was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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18 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).