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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Appellate Division / Joined 1950 / Served to 1963

William H. Coon

Justice, New York Appellate Division

William H. Coon was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division, who joined the court in 1950. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1899–1968
Tenure: 1950–1963 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1950	New York Appellate Division	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Coon authored 112 published opinions for the court (1950–1963), plus 7 dissents. Most cited: Fullerton v. City of Schenectady (33 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. 119 of these were attributed to Coon 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
1955	Fullerton v. City of Schenectady· Dissent†	285 A.D. 545	33
1955	People v. Stratton†	286 A.D. 323	32
1954	Claim of Zaepfel v. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co.†	284 A.D. 693	26
1953	Holmes v. State†	282 A.D. 278	20
1961	Claim of Wilkosz v. Symington Gould Corp.†	14 A.D.2d 408	18
1952	In re the Probate of the Will of Coddington†	281 A.D. 143	18
1963	Travelers Insurance v. W. F. Saunders & Sons, Inc.†	18 A.D.2d 126	14
1951	Aguilar v. State†	279 A.D. 103	14
1953	Claim of Deyo v. Village of Piermont, Inc.†	283 A.D. 67	13
1952	Beam v. Wilson†	279 A.D. 277	13
1961	In re Sellers†	13 A.D.2d 204	12
1953	Miller v. Hine· Dissent†	281 A.D. 387	12
1952	People v. O'Neil†	280 A.D. 145	12
1954	Galka v. City of Albany†	285 A.D. 27	11
1954	In re the Claim of Foscarinis†	284 A.D. 476	11

Showing the 15 most-cited of 119 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 William H. Coon on?: William H. Coon was a Justice of the New York Appellate Division.

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13 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).