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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Appellate Division / Joined 1958 / Served to 1976

Walter B. Reynolds

Justice, New York Appellate Division

Walter B. Reynolds was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1958. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1901–1991
Tenure: 1958–1976 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1958	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Reynolds authored 688 published opinions for the court (1958–1976), plus 50 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Schenectady Steel Co. v. Bruno Trimpoli General Construction Co. (76 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. 746 of these were attributed to Reynolds 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
1974	Schenectady Steel Co. v. Bruno Trimpoli General Construction Co.†	43 A.D.2d 234	76
1968	In re the Claim of Lester†	30 A.D.2d 1025	36
1970	Doyle v. Lazarro†	33 A.D.2d 142	30
1973	Custer Builders, Inc. v. Quaker Heritage, Inc.†	41 A.D.2d 448	28
1970	In re the Claim of Rubinstein†	33 A.D.2d 950	27
1974	Town of Clifton Park v. C. P. Enterprises†	45 A.D.2d 96	26
1976	Bankers Trust Co. v. Martin†	51 A.D.2d 411	23
1973	Lefkowitz v. E. F. G. Baby Products Co.†	40 A.D.2d 364	23
1960	La Rose v. Backer†	11 A.D.2d 314	23
1976	Cohen v. State of NY· Dissent†	51 A.D.2d 494	21
1970	People v. Schriber†	34 A.D.2d 852	21
1975	Armitage v. Carey†	49 A.D.2d 496	19
1975	Claim of Nallan v. Motion Picture Studio Mechanics Union, Local No. 52· Dissent†	49 A.D.2d 365	19
1959	Morwin v. Albany Hospital†	7 A.D.2d 582	19
1974	People v. Brown†	46 A.D.2d 255	18

Showing the 15 most-cited of 746 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 Walter B. Reynolds on?: Walter B. Reynolds was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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18 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).