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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Court of Appeals / Joined 1985 / Served to 1998

Vito Joseph Titone

Judge, New York Court of Appeals

Vito Joseph Titone was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1929–2005
Tenure: 1985–1998 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1985	New York Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

New York University

Judicial Record

In our data, Titone authored 183 published opinions for the court (1985–1998), plus 87 dissents and 28 concurrences. Most cited: Ross v. Curtis-Palmer Hydro-Electric Co. (1,744 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. 287 of these were attributed to Titone 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
1993	Ross v. Curtis-Palmer Hydro-Electric Co.†	618 N.E.2d 82	1,744
1992	People v. Callahan†	80 N.Y.2d 273	1,293
1996	MATTER OF TROPEA v. Tropea†	665 N.E.2d 145	840
1994	People v. Walker†	633 N.E.2d 472	726
1993	People v. Bolden†	81 N.Y.2d 146	698
1989	People v. Mahboubian· Concurrence†	74 N.Y.2d 174	692
1986	People v. Jennings†	69 N.Y.2d 103	603
1991	People v. O'Rama†	78 N.Y.2d 270	575
1987	Cuffy v. City of New York†	69 N.Y.2d 255	547
1988	People v. Hudy†	73 N.Y.2d 40	543
1992	People v. Cortes†	80 N.Y.2d 201	498
1989	Sheehy v. Big Flats Community Day, Inc.†	73 N.Y.2d 629	481
1991	People v. Duuvon· Concurrence†	77 N.Y.2d 541	475
1987	Boreali v. Axelrod†	71 N.Y.2d 1	459
1985	O'Brien v. O'Brien· Concurrence†	66 N.Y.2d 576	434

Showing the 15 most-cited of 298 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 Vito Joseph Titone on?: Vito Joseph Titone was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.

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13 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).