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 1952 / Served to 1963

Philip Halpern

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Philip Halpern was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1952. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1902–1963
Tenure: 1952–1963 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1952	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Halpern authored 107 published opinions for the court (1952–1963), plus 29 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Teeter v. Allstate Insurance (53 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. 141 of these were attributed to Halpern 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	Teeter v. Allstate Insurance†	9 A.D.2d 176	53
1954	Gill v. Montgomery Ward & Co.†	284 A.D. 36	50
1953	Ruping v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.†	283 A.D. 204	44
1957	Beckley v. Otsego County Farmers Cooperative Fire Insurance†	3 A.D.2d 190	40
1958	Markel v. Spencer†	5 A.D.2d 400	39
1954	Rugg v. State†	284 A.D. 179	35
1953	Claim of McCann v. Walsh Construction Co.†	282 A.D. 444	32
1954	Donato v. American Locomotive Co.†	283 A.D. 410	31
1962	Sheridan Drive-In, Inc. v. State†	16 A.D.2d 400	29
1962	Bunis v. Conway†	17 A.D.2d 207	28
1954	Triple Cities Construction Co. v. Dan-Bar Contracting Co.†	285 A.D. 299	28
1954	Vanderhule v. Berinstein†	285 A.D. 290	28
1955	Arcuri v. Macduff†	286 A.D. 17	27
1955	People ex rel. Watchtower Bible & Tract Society, Inc. v. Haring†	286 A.D. 676	26
1954	Gilbert v. Van Kleeck†	284 A.D. 611	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 141 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 Philip Halpern on?: Philip Halpern was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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11 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).