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 1982 / Served to 1985

Seymour Boyers

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Seymour Boyers was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1982. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1926 · age 100
Tenure: 1982–1985 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1982	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Boyers authored 15 published opinions for the court (1982–1984), plus 5 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Krupp v. Aetna Life & Casualty Co. (102 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. 21 of these were attributed to Boyers 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
1984	Krupp v. Aetna Life & Casualty Co.†	103 A.D.2d 252	102
1983	Lipsius v. White†	91 A.D.2d 271	91
1983	Weeden v. Armor Elevator Co.†	97 A.D.2d 197	60
1984	Allstate Insurance v. Libow†	106 A.D.2d 110	43
1983	Kret v. Brookdale Hospital Medical Center†	93 A.D.2d 449	39
1984	Murphy v. Board of Education· Dissent†	104 A.D.2d 796	38
1983	People v. Knowell†	94 A.D.2d 255	27
1984	Rosado v. Mercedes-Benz of North America, Inc.†	103 A.D.2d 395	20
1984	People v. Tratch· Dissent†	104 A.D.2d 503	18
1984	In re the Estate of Bellows†	103 A.D.2d 594	17
1984	Marabello v. City of New York†	99 A.D.2d 133	16
1982	Park Knoll Associates v. Schmidt†	89 A.D.2d 164	16
1983	People v. Smalls· Dissent†	94 A.D.2d 777	10
1982	People v. Brooks†	88 A.D.2d 451	8
1984	People v. Rivera†	103 A.D.2d 225	6

Showing the 15 most-cited of 21 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 Seymour Boyers on?: Seymour Boyers was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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3 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).