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 1999 / Served to 2009

Robert Hurlbutt

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Robert Hurlbutt was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1999–2009 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hurlbutt authored 18 published opinions for the court (1999–2008), plus 5 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Hamburg v. American Ref-Fuel Co. (46 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. 24 of these were attributed to Hurlbutt 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
2001	Hamburg v. American Ref-Fuel Co.†	284 A.D.2d 85	46
2003	People v. Parker†	304 A.D.2d 146	35
2008	Lauer v. City of Buffalo†	53 A.D.3d 213	21
2007	Anderson v. House of Good Samaritan Hospital†	44 A.D.3d 135	20
2006	In re City of Syracuse Industrial Development Agency· Dissent†	32 A.D.3d 1332	17
2004	Doe v. HMO-CNY†	14 A.D.3d 102	15
2002	Wooten v. State†	302 A.D.2d 70	15
2000	Davis v. Davis†	269 A.D.2d 82	15
2008	Monroe County Public School Districts v. Zyra†	51 A.D.3d 125	13
2006	Fitzpatrick v. Rosenthal†	29 A.D.3d 24	13
2004	Heck v. Keane†	6 A.D.3d 95	13
2003	Dynas v. Nagowski†	307 A.D.2d 144	13
2002	Seneca v. Seneca†	293 A.D.2d 56	13
2005	People v. Pacer†	21 A.D.3d 192	12
2000	People v. Scott†	269 A.D.2d 96	9

Showing the 15 most-cited of 24 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 Robert Hurlbutt on?: Robert Hurlbutt was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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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).