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 1947 / Served to 1957

Raymond C. Vaughan

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Raymond C. Vaughan was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1947. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1887–1964
Tenure: 1947–1957 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1947	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Vaughan authored 48 published opinions for the court (1948–1957), plus 5 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. v. Wanamaker (45 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. 54 of these were attributed to Vaughan 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
1955	Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. v. Wanamaker†	286 A.D. 446	45
1948	Schaeffer v. Caldwell†	273 A.D. 263	23
1955	Alpert v. Board of Governors of the City Hospital†	286 A.D. 542	19
1954	Gurevitch v. State†	284 A.D. 717	17
1954	People v. Hasenstab†	283 A.D. 433	17
1951	Weiderman v. Recklinghausen†	278 A.D. 289	17
1956	People v. Nicoll†	3 A.D.2d 64	12
1957	Christian v. Village of Herkimer†	5 A.D.2d 62	11
1948	Hatch v. Cherry-Burrell Corp.†	274 A.D. 234	11
1953	Weber v. Lacey†	281 A.D. 290	10
1952	In re the Accounting of First Trust & Deposit Co.†	280 A.D. 482	9
1955	People v. Daniels†	285 A.D. 619	8
1954	Nicholas v. New York State Electric & Gas Corp.†	283 A.D. 291	8
1953	In re Mengel Co.†	281 A.D. 530	8
1956	In re the Estate of Venblow†	2 A.D.2d 365	7

Showing the 15 most-cited of 54 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 Raymond C. Vaughan on?: Raymond C. Vaughan was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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10 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).