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 1983 / Served to 2011

Samuel L. Green

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Samuel L. Green was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1983. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1935 · age 91
Tenure: 1983–2011 · 28 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1983	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Green authored 73 published opinions for the court (1983–2011), plus 44 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Chase Manhattan Bank v. Brown & East Ridge Partners (241 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. 123 of these were attributed to Green 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
1998	Chase Manhattan Bank v. Brown & East Ridge Partners†	243 A.D.2d 81	241
1984	People v. Benjamin R.†	103 A.D.2d 663	60
1984	Cooley v. Carter-Wallace Inc.†	102 A.D.2d 642	51
1989	Tighe v. Ginsberg†	146 A.D.2d 268	50
1987	Belling v. Haugh's Pools, Ltd.· Dissent†	126 A.D.2d 958	45
1987	Manufacturers & Traders Trust Co. v. Servotronics, Inc.†	132 A.D.2d 392	43
1984	People v. Grice†	100 A.D.2d 419	40
1987	LoDico v. Caputi· Dissent†	129 A.D.2d 361	35
1990	People v. Guzman†	153 A.D.2d 320	34
1984	Alan Lupton Associates, Inc. v. Northeast Plastics, Inc.†	105 A.D.2d 3	34
1994	Bristol-Myers Squibb Industrial Division v. Delta Star, Inc.†	206 A.D.2d 177	31
1991	Syracuse Cablesystems, Inc. v. Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.†	173 A.D.2d 138	29
2001	McKenna v. Forsyth & Forsyth†	280 A.D.2d 79	27
1996	Harrington v. Amiga Mutual Insurance· Dissent†	223 A.D.2d 222	27
1990	People v. Dunn· Dissent†	155 A.D.2d 75	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 123 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 L. Green on?: Samuel L. Green was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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28 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).