How do judges of the Connecticut Appellate Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Appellate Court / Joined 1990 / Served to 2002

Sidney S. Landau

Judge, Connecticut Appellate Court

Sidney S. Landau was a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court, who joined the court in 1990. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1935–2008
Tenure: 1990–2002 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1990	Connecticut Appellate Court	–	–

Education

Alfred University
New York University

Judicial Record

In our data, Landau authored 379 published opinions for the court (1990–2002), plus 14 dissents and 16 concurrences. Most cited: Quimby v. Kimberly Clark Corp. (265 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. 409 of these were attributed to Landau 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
1992	Quimby v. Kimberly Clark Corp.†	28 Conn. App. 660	265
1993	Forbes v. Ballaro†	31 Conn. App. 235	202
1992	In re Michael M.†	29 Conn. App. 112	177
1995	New Milford Savings Bank v. Roina†	38 Conn. App. 240	132
1993	Burke v. Avitabile†	32 Conn. App. 765	110
1998	In re Roshawn R.†	51 Conn. App. 44	109
1998	Thames River Recycling, Inc. v. Gallo†	50 Conn. App. 767	83
1999	In re Danuael D.†	51 Conn. App. 829	77
1999	Bell v. Board of Education†	55 Conn. App. 400	74
1991	Acro Technology, Inc. v. Administrator, Unemployment Compensation Act†	25 Conn. App. 130	74
1992	Zoning Board of Appeals v. Planning & Zoning Commission†	27 Conn. App. 297	63
1996	Field v. Kearns†	43 Conn. App. 265	60
1994	In re Felicia D.†	35 Conn. App. 490	58
1994	Expressway Associates II v. Friendly Ice Cream Corp.†	34 Conn. App. 543	56
1993	Cortes v. Cotton†	31 Conn. App. 569	56

Showing the 15 most-cited of 409 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 Connecticut Appellate Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Sidney S. Landau on?: Sidney S. Landau was a Judge of the Connecticut Appellate Court.

Sources

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12 years on the Connecticut Appellate Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).