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 1946 / Served to 1973

Stanley H. Fuld

Judge, New York Court of Appeals

Stanley H. Fuld was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1946. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1903–2003
Tenure: 1946–1973 · 27 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1946	New York Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Columbia University in the City of New York

Judicial Record

In our data, Fuld authored 534 published opinions for the court (1946–1973), plus 208 dissents and 50 concurrences. Most cited: Sillman v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. (1,423 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. 668 of these were attributed to Fuld 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
1957	Sillman v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.· Dissent†	3 N.Y.2d 395	1,423
1961	People v. Rosario†	9 N.Y.2d 286	1,115
1968	Allen v. Crowell-Collier Publishing Co.†	21 N.Y.2d 403	1,058
1963	Babcock v. Jackson†	12 N.Y.2d 473	756
1971	Howard v. Wyman†	28 N.Y.2d 434	630
1965	Longines-Wittnauer Watch Co. v. Barnes & Reinecke, Inc.†	15 N.Y.2d 443	557
1961	Walker v. Sheldon†	10 N.Y.2d 401	517
1959	Danann Realty Corp. v. Harris· Dissent†	5 N.Y.2d 317	468
1960	Weiss v. Fote†	7 N.Y.2d 579	416
1970	Bradkin v. Leverton†	26 N.Y.2d 192	409
1953	People v. Trowbridge· Dissent†	305 N.Y. 471	409
1954	Auten v. Auten†	308 N.Y. 155	405
1971	People v. Berrios· Dissent†	28 N.Y.2d 361	390
1972	Neumeier v. Kuehner†	31 N.Y.2d 121	338
1970	Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. v. Franklyn†	26 N.Y.2d 13	325

Showing the 15 most-cited of 792 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 Stanley H. Fuld on?: Stanley H. Fuld was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.

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