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 1960 / Served to 1972

Samuel W. Eager

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Samuel W. Eager was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1960. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1900–1982
Tenure: 1960–1972 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1960	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Eager authored 91 published opinions for the court (1960–1972), plus 86 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: Foley v. D'Agostino (264 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. 190 of these were attributed to Eager 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
1964	Foley v. D'Agostino†	21 A.D.2d 60	264
1966	McGee v. Adams Paper & Twine Co.†	26 A.D.2d 186	73
1963	Rosenstiel v. Rosenstiel†	20 A.D.2d 71	60
1962	People ex rel. Gale v. Tax Commission†	17 A.D.2d 225	47
1962	Booth v. Curtis Publishing Co.· Dissent†	15 A.D.2d 343	42
1968	In re Aaron D.†	30 A.D.2d 183	39
1968	Grace v. Sterling, Grace & Co.†	30 A.D.2d 61	36
1967	Erdman v. Ingraham†	28 A.D.2d 5	35
1965	Morrison v. National Broadcasting Co.· Dissent†	24 A.D.2d 284	33
1969	Pagan v. New York Herald Tribune, Inc.†	32 A.D.2d 341	31
1962	Kayfield Construction Corp. v. Morris· Concurrence†	15 A.D.2d 373	31
1967	In re Hildreth†	28 A.D.2d 290	30
1963	Cosmopolitan Mutual Insurance v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad†	18 A.D.2d 460	28
1962	Lamberti v. Anaco Equipment Corp.· Dissent†	16 A.D.2d 121	28
1967	New York County Lawyers' Ass'n v. Dacey†	28 A.D.2d 161	27

Showing the 15 most-cited of 192 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 Samuel W. Eager on?: Samuel W. Eager was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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12 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).