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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

New York Court of Appeals / Joined 1913 / Served to 1919

William H. Cuddeback

Judge, New York Court of Appeals

William H. Cuddeback was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1913. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1852–1919
Tenure: 1913–1919 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1913	New York Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Cornell University

Judicial Record

In our data, Cuddeback authored 84 published opinions for the court (1913–1919), plus 5 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Matter of Carroll v. . Knickerbocker Ice Co. (132 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. 2 of these were attributed to Cuddeback 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	Matter of Carroll v. . Knickerbocker Ice Co.	113 N.E. 507	132
1915	People v. . Marendi· Dissent	107 N.E. 1058	87
1915	Amberg v. . Kinley	108 N.E. 830	86
1913	Taylor v. . Goelet	101 N.E. 867	85
1916	People Ex Rel. New York & Queens Gas Co. v. McCall	113 N.E. 795	81
1919	Melcher v. . Ocean Accident Guarantee Corp.	123 N.E. 81	67
1915	Wallace v. . Wallace	109 N.E. 872	61
1913	Miller v. . Clary	103 N.E. 1114	52
1916	Spencer v. . Spencer	114 N.E. 849	42
1916	Hartell v. T. H. Simonson & Son Co.	113 N.E. 255	39
1915	Chew v. . Sheldon	108 N.E. 552	39
1918	People Ex Rel. Palmer v. . Travis· Dissent	119 N.E. 437	37
1916	Rigney v. . N.Y.C. H.R.R.R. Co.	111 N.E. 226	34
1915	Van Ness v. . Ransom	109 N.E. 593	34
1915	Union Bank v. . Sullivan	108 N.E. 558	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 91 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 William H. Cuddeback on?: William H. Cuddeback was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.

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6 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).