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 2004 / Served to 2009

Robert A. Spolzino

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Robert A. Spolzino was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 2004. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2004–2009 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2004	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Spolzino authored 23 published opinions for the court (2005–2009), plus 12 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Caprer v. Nussbaum (618 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. 41 of these were attributed to Spolzino 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
2006	Caprer v. Nussbaum†	36 A.D.3d 176	618
2005	Ador Realty, LLC v. Division of Housing & Community Renewal†	25 A.D.3d 128	136
2009	Hamlet at Willow Creek Development Co. v. Northeast Land Development Corp.†	64 A.D.3d 85	74
2007	G.K. Alan Assoc., Inc. v. Lazzari†	44 A.D.3d 95	66
2007	Village of Chestnut Ridge v. Town of Ramapo†	45 A.D.3d 74	43
2007	Van Nostrand v. Froehlich· Dissent†	44 A.D.3d 54	32
2007	Terranova v. New York City Transit Authority†	49 A.D.3d 10	27
2008	Caldwell v. American Package Co.†	57 A.D.3d 15	25
2006	King v. Car Rentals, Inc.†	29 A.D.3d 205	25
2006	P & N Tiffany Properties, Inc. v. Village of Tuckahoe†	33 A.D.3d 61	24
2006	Robinson Motor Xpress, Inc. v. HSBC Bank, USA†	37 A.D.3d 117	23
2006	Gizzo v. Town of Mamaroneck†	36 A.D.3d 162	20
2007	People v. Taylor†	42 A.D.3d 13	19
2008	Novelty Crystal Corp. v. PSA Institutional Partners, L.P.†	49 A.D.3d 113	16
2009	Howe v. Howe†	68 A.D.3d 38	15

Showing the 15 most-cited of 41 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 A. Spolzino on?: Robert A. Spolzino was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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5 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).