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 2001 / Served to 2008

Stephen G. Crane

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Stephen G. Crane was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 2001. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2001–2008 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2001	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Crane authored 12 published opinions for the court (2001–2008), plus 8 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Felice v. Eastport/South Manor Central School District (1,097 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 Crane 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
2008	Felice v. Eastport/South Manor Central School District†	50 A.D.3d 138	1,097
2008	Lucido v. Mancuso†	49 A.D.3d 220	768
2005	Kearse v. New York City Transit Authority†	16 A.D.3d 45	189
2005	Harcztark v. Drive Variety, Inc.· Dissent†	21 A.D.3d 876	96
2005	Nastasi v. Nastasi†	26 A.D.3d 32	58
2001	People v. Sorbello†	285 A.D.2d 88	29
2005	Meely v. 4 G's Truck Renting Co.†	16 A.D.3d 26	28
2002	Gomez v. Bicknell†	302 A.D.2d 107	26
2004	Sweeney, Cohn, Stahl & Vaccaro v. Kane†	6 A.D.3d 72	25
2004	In re the Estate of Hunter· Concurrence†	6 A.D.3d 117	17
2005	Estrada v. Berkel Inc.· Concurrence†	14 A.D.3d 529	16
2001	O'Neal v. Archdioceses of New York· Dissent†	286 A.D.2d 757	13
2007	People v. Kozlow· Dissent†	46 A.D.3d 913	12
2005	Balanoff v. Niosi†	16 A.D.3d 53	12
2004	Sheppard-Mobley v. King†	10 A.D.3d 70	12

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 Appellate Division reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Stephen G. Crane on?: Stephen G. Crane was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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7 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).