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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Court of Appeals / Joined 2007 / Served to 2012

Theodore Theopolis Jones

Judge, New York Court of Appeals

Theodore Theopolis Jones was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 2007. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1944–2012
Tenure: 2007–2012 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2007	New York Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Hampton University

Judicial Record

In our data, Jones authored 93 published opinions for the court (2007–2012), plus 28 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Evans (989 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. 104 of these were attributed to Jones 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
2011	People v. Evans· Dissent†	949 N.E.2d 457	989
2011	Mandarin Trading Ltd. v. Wildenstein†	16 N.Y.3d 173	973
2009	Peckham v. Calogero†	12 N.Y.3d 424	545
2009	People v. Dorm	12 N.Y.3d 16	480
2012	People v. Cass†	18 N.Y.3d 553	423
2011	McCarthy v. Turner Construction, Inc.†	953 N.E.2d 794	378
2012	Becker v. Murtagh†	19 N.Y.3d 75	355
2010	People v. Porto†	16 N.Y.3d 93	344
2010	Brandy B. v. Eden Central School District	934 N.E.2d 304	342
2011	People v. Brannon· Concurrence†	949 N.E.2d 484	319
2007	Fung v. Japan Airlines Co.†	9 N.Y.3d 351	207
2010	People v. Reome· Dissent†	933 N.E.2d 186	173
2010	People v. Pettigrew†	927 N.E.2d 1053	165
2007	People v. LeGrand†	867 N.E.2d 374	162
2010	In Re Empire State Towing & Recovery Ass'n†	15 N.Y.3d 433	149

Showing the 15 most-cited of 124 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 Theodore Theopolis Jones on?: Theodore Theopolis Jones was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.

Sources

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5 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).