How do judges of the New York Court of Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Court of Appeals / Joined 1906 / Served to 1916

Willard Bartlett

Judge, New York Court of Appeals

Willard Bartlett was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1906. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1846–1925
Tenure: 1906–1916 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1906	New York Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Columbia University in the City of New York
New York University

Judicial Record

In our data, Bartlett authored 690 published opinions for the court (1894–1916), plus 139 dissents and 24 concurrences. Most cited: MacPherson v. . Buick Motor Co. (1,331 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. 17 of these were attributed to Bartlett 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
1916	MacPherson v. . Buick Motor Co.· Dissent	111 N.E. 1050	1,331
1901	Griffen v. . Manice· Dissent	59 N.E. 925	272
1895	Martin v. New York Life Insurance	42 N.E. 416	187
1911	De Brauwere v. . De Brauwere	96 N.E. 722	167
1895	Health Department v. Rector of Trinity Church· Dissent	39 N.E. 833	135
1916	Matter of Carroll v. . Knickerbocker Ice Co.· Concurrence	113 N.E. 507	132
1896	People v. . Havnor· Dissent	43 N.E. 541	125
1899	Allen v. . Stevens· Dissent	55 N.E. 568	123
1908	People v. . Del Vermo	85 N.E. 690	121
1898	People v. . Sickles· Dissent	51 N.E. 288	111
1915	People v. . Crane· Concurrence	108 N.E. 427	106
1908	Sporza v. . German Savings Bank· Concurrence	84 N.E. 406	98
1909	People Ex Rel. Jamaica Water Supply Co. v. State Board of Tax Commissioners	89 N.E. 581	97
1899	Marden v. . Dorthy· Dissent	54 N.E. 726	95
1898	People v. . Hawkins· Dissent	51 N.E. 257	95

Showing the 15 most-cited of 853 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 Willard Bartlett on?: Willard Bartlett was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.

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10 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).