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 1974 / Served to 1974

Samuel Rabin

Judge, New York Court of Appeals

Samuel Rabin was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1974. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1905–1993
Tenure: 1974–1974

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1974	New York Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Cornell University
Polytechnic Institute of New York University

Judicial Record

In our data, Rabin authored 22 published opinions for the court (1974), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: People v. Benzinger (347 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. 23 of these were attributed to Rabin 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
1974	People v. Benzinger†	36 N.Y.2d 29	347
1974	Holodook v. Spencer†	36 N.Y.2d 35	213
1974	De Sapio v. Kohlmeyer†	35 N.Y.2d 402	160
1974	People v. Eboli†	34 N.Y.2d 281	103
1974	People v. Blakley†	34 N.Y.2d 311	96
1974	Freund v. Washington Square Press, Inc.†	34 N.Y.2d 379	95
1974	People v. Cook†	34 N.Y.2d 100	89
1974	People v. Troiano· Concurrence†	35 N.Y.2d 476	80
1974	Hadden v. Consolidated Edison Co.†	34 N.Y.2d 88	80
1974	Smith v. County of Nassau†	34 N.Y.2d 18	77
1974	People v. Session†	34 N.Y.2d 254	65
1974	Rosman v. Trans World Airlines, Inc.†	34 N.Y.2d 385	61
1974	In Re Arbitration Between J. P. Stevens & Co. & Rytex Corp.†	34 N.Y.2d 123	56
1974	People v. Stone†	35 N.Y.2d 69	36
1974	People v. Hunter†	34 N.Y.2d 432	31

Showing the 15 most-cited of 23 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 Samuel Rabin on?: Samuel Rabin was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.

Sources

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Joined the court in 1974. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).