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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Appellate Division / Joined 1971 / Served to 1981

Richard J. Cardamone

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Richard J. Cardamone was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1971. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1925 · age 101
Tenure: 1971–1981 · 10 yrs
Education: Harvard 1948

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1971	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Education

Harvard University

B.A.

1948

Judicial Record

In our data, Cardamone authored 106 published opinions for the court (1971–1981), plus 30 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Wolfgruber v. Upjohn Co. (117 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. 140 of these were attributed to Cardamone 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
1979	Wolfgruber v. Upjohn Co.†	72 A.D.2d 59	117
1977	Fifty States Management Corp. v. Niagara Permanent Savings & Loan Ass'n†	58 A.D.2d 177	52
1981	Privitera v. Town of Phelps· Concurrence†	79 A.D.2d 1	49
1973	Bartkowiak v. St. Adalbert's Roman Catholic Church Society†	40 A.D.2d 306	49
1981	Rainbow v. Albert Elia Building Co.· Dissent†	79 A.D.2d 287	44
1978	Saff v. Saff· Dissent†	61 A.D.2d 452	41
1977	People v. Goldfeld†	60 A.D.2d 1	40
1980	Dries v. Gregor†	72 A.D.2d 231	39
1981	Wilson v. Sponable†	81 A.D.2d 1	37
1980	Franchel v. Sims†	73 A.D.2d 1	34
1979	Gordon v. Holt†	65 A.D.2d 344	33
1977	Kenford Co. v. County of Erie†	55 A.D.2d 466	32
1981	De Forte v. Allstate Insurance†	81 A.D.2d 465	31
1976	149 Clinton Avenue North, Inc. v. Grassi†	51 A.D.2d 502	31
1977	Cortland-Clinton, Inc. v. New York State Department of Health†	59 A.D.2d 228	30

Showing the 15 most-cited of 140 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 Richard J. Cardamone on?: Richard J. Cardamone 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).