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 1986 / Served to 2003

Richard W. Wallach

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Richard W. Wallach was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1986. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1927–2003
Tenure: 1986–2003 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1986	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Wallach authored 92 published opinions for the court (1986–2003), plus 27 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: Four Seasons Hotels Ltd. v. Vinnik (206 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. 128 of these were attributed to Wallach 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
1987	Four Seasons Hotels Ltd. v. Vinnik†	127 A.D.2d 310	206
1996	Hughes v. Lenox Hill Hospital	226 A.D.2d 4	93
1993	Sogg v. American Airlines Inc.· Dissent†	193 A.D.2d 153	47
1986	Capasso v. Capasso†	119 A.D.2d 268	42
1999	Shimamoto v. S&F Warehouses, Inc.†	258 A.D.2d 334	35
1990	Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation v. Lubell†	153 A.D.2d 143	34
1989	Scott v. Carter-Wallace, Inc.†	147 A.D.2d 33	34
1995	Granville v. City of New York· Dissent†	211 A.D.2d 195	33
1989	Horn v. 440 East 57th Co.†	151 A.D.2d 112	30
1987	Grant v. Cuomo	130 A.D.2d 154	30
1987	Capasso v. Capasso†	129 A.D.2d 267	30
1990	Harkin v. Culleton†	156 A.D.2d 19	29
1999	Dinicu v. Groff Studios Corp.†	257 A.D.2d 218	28
1996	Cushman & Wakefield Inc. v. 214 East 49th Street Corp.†	218 A.D.2d 464	28
1992	Fallon v. Wall Street Clearing Co.†	182 A.D.2d 245	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 131 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 W. Wallach on?: Richard W. Wallach was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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17 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).