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 1975 / Served to 1983

Vincent D. Damiani

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Vincent D. Damiani was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1975. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1975–1983 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1975	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Damiani authored 36 published opinions for the court (1976–1983), plus 9 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Katz v. Katz (656 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. 46 of these were attributed to Damiani 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
1979	Katz v. Katz†	68 A.D.2d 536	656
1980	Brown v. Lockwood†	76 A.D.2d 721	252
1981	Connell v. Hayden†	83 A.D.2d 30	247
1981	Brock v. Bua†	83 A.D.2d 61	152
1978	Southern Industries, Inc. v. Jeremias†	66 A.D.2d 178	104
1981	Pace v. Perk†	81 A.D.2d 444	99
1979	Monroe v. City of New York†	67 A.D.2d 89	86
1978	Donohue v. Copiague Union Free School District	64 A.D.2d 29	67
1978	Castle Associates v. Schwartz†	63 A.D.2d 481	66
1980	People v. Notey· Dissent†	72 A.D.2d 279	63
1980	Church of God of Prospect Plaza v. Fourth Church of Christ†	76 A.D.2d 712	45
1981	Colbert v. International Security Bureau, Inc.†	79 A.D.2d 448	44
1979	Grady v. Utica Mutual Insurance†	69 A.D.2d 668	41
1980	Green Bus Lines, Inc. v. Consolidated Mutual Insurance†	74 A.D.2d 136	39
1983	In re the Estate of Kummer†	93 A.D.2d 135	38

Showing the 15 most-cited of 48 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 Vincent D. Damiani on?: Vincent D. Damiani was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

Sources

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8 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).