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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Court of Appeals / Joined 2000 / Served to 2014

Victoria A. Graffeo

Judge, New York Court of Appeals

Victoria A. Graffeo was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 2000. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1952 · age 74
Tenure: 2000–2014 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	New York Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

SUNY Oneonta
Albany Law School

Judicial Record

In our data, Graffeo authored 246 published opinions for the court (2001–2014), plus 27 dissents and 18 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Romero (6,459 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. 264 of these were attributed to Graffeo 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
2006	People v. Romero	2006 NY Slip Op 8640	6,459
2002	Toure v. Avis Rent a Car Systems, Inc.†	774 N.E.2d 1197	2,962
2004	People v. Konieczny†	813 N.E.2d 626	1,810
2002	Greenfield v. Philles Records, Inc.	780 N.E.2d 166	1,150
2012	Custodi v. Town of Amherst†	20 N.Y.3d 83	1,103
2004	People v. Nieves†	811 N.E.2d 13	1,063
2009	People v. Kalin	12 N.Y.3d 225	1,029
2009	People v. Mingo	12 N.Y.3d 563	927
2001	People v. Hines†	762 N.E.2d 329	726
2013	Applewhite v. Accuhealth, Inc.†	21 N.Y.3d 420	681
2005	Beechwood Restorative Care Center v. Signor†	842 N.E.2d 468	621
2013	Galetta v. Galetta†	21 N.Y.3d 186	510
2009	Eurycleia Partners, LP v. Seward & Kissel, LLP†	12 N.Y.3d 553	507
2002	People v. Horne†	767 N.E.2d 132	482
2005	In Re the Estate of Hunter†	827 N.E.2d 269	471

Showing the 15 most-cited of 291 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 Victoria A. Graffeo on?: Victoria A. Graffeo was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.

Sources

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14 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).