How do judges of the New York Court of Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Court of Appeals / Joined 1870 / Served to 1894

Robert Earl

Judge, New York Court of Appeals

Robert Earl was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1870. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1824–1902
Tenure: 1870–1894 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1870	New York Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Earl authored 1,415 published opinions for the court (1870–1894), plus 42 dissents and 40 concurrences. Most cited: Riggs v. . Palmer (472 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. 377 of these were attributed to Earl 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
1889	Riggs v. . Palmer	22 N.E. 188	472
1878	Stuart v. . Palmer	74 N.Y. 183	406
1886	Wakeman v. Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Co.	4 N.E. 264	388
1885	Matter of Application of Jacobs	98 N.Y. 98	322
1882	Story v. . New York Elevated R.R. Co.· Dissent	90 N.Y. 122	301
1880	Titus v. . Glens Falls Insurance Company	81 N.Y. 410	268
1889	Ladd v. . Stevenson	19 N.E. 842	248
1887	People v. . O'Sullivan	10 N.E. 880	244
1884	Ehrgott v. . Mayor, Etc., of City of N.Y.	96 N.Y. 264	241
1882	Williams v. . Ingersoll	89 N.Y. 508	198
1889	Robinson v. Oceanic Steam Navigation Co.	19 N.E. 625	186
1880	Herrman v. . Merchants' Insurance Co.	81 N.Y. 184	182
1881	Gould v. . Cayuga County National Bank	86 N.Y. 75	169
1883	Bertles v. . Nunan	92 N.Y. 152	160
1883	Langdon v. . Mayor, Etc., of City of N.Y.	93 N.Y. 129	156

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,500 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 Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Robert Earl on?: Robert Earl was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.

Sources

Each fact on this page traces to a primary public record.

How we source & reconcile data → Data & Sources

See something wrong? Report an error. Fixes are logged in the corrections log.

24 years on the New York Court of Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).