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 1962 / Served to 1974

Samuel Rabin

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Samuel Rabin was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1962. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1962–1974 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1962	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Rabin authored 11 published opinions for the court (1969–1972), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Bass v. City of New York (50 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. 11 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
1972	Bass v. City of New York	38 A.D.2d 407	50
1971	People v. Bell†	36 A.D.2d 406	33
1970	Murphy v. St. Charles Hospital†	35 A.D.2d 64	29
1969	Rand v. Hearst Corp.†	31 A.D.2d 406	28
1969	In re the Arbitration between Taub & Motor Vehicle Accident Indemnification Corp.†	31 A.D.2d 378	15
1969	Tierney v. Flower†	32 A.D.2d 392	12
1969	Grynbal v. Grynbal†	32 A.D.2d 427	10
1969	Bon-Air Estates, Inc. v. Building Inspector of Town of Ramapo†	31 A.D.2d 502	10
1971	Partridge v. Lomenzo· Dissent†	37 A.D.2d 180	6
1970	Lawler v. Nucastle Motors Leasing Inc.†	35 A.D.2d 450	5
1970	Reiszel v. Fontana†	35 A.D.2d 74	4
1970	Palmer v. McInerney†	35 A.D.2d 428	1

Showing the 12 most-cited of 12 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 Rabin on?: Samuel Rabin was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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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).