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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Appellate Division / Joined 1969 / Served to 1984

Reid S. Moule

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Reid S. Moule was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1969. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1908–1995
Tenure: 1969–1984 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1969	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Moule authored 135 published opinions for the court (1969–1984), plus 36 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Brayton v. Pappas (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. 171 of these were attributed to Moule 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
1976	Brayton v. Pappas†	52 A.D.2d 187	250
1980	Airco Alloys Division v. Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.†	76 A.D.2d 68	175
1975	Wegman v. Dairylea Cooperative, Inc.†	50 A.D.2d 108	126
1979	Gambar Enterprises, Inc. v. Kelly Services, Inc.†	69 A.D.2d 297	82
1977	Hurlbut v. Whalen†	58 A.D.2d 311	68
1976	People v. Vicaretti†	54 A.D.2d 236	64
1973	Hurd v. City of Buffalo†	41 A.D.2d 402	54
1984	People v. Shedrick†	104 A.D.2d 263	52
1977	Lincoln First Bank v. Siegel†	60 A.D.2d 270	52
1984	Cooley v. Carter-Wallace Inc.· Dissent†	102 A.D.2d 642	51
1980	Jordan v. Ford Motor Co.†	73 A.D.2d 422	48
1976	Rosen Trust v. Rosen†	53 A.D.2d 342	48
1976	Taft v. Shaffer Trucking, Inc.†	52 A.D.2d 255	47
1977	Karlsons v. Guerinot†	57 A.D.2d 73	46
1980	People v. McNeeley†	77 A.D.2d 205	44

Showing the 15 most-cited of 173 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 Reid S. Moule on?: Reid S. Moule was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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15 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).