Who shaped New York law?

Judges ranked by how often the opinions they authored are cited by other NY decisions. Every figure traces back to real cases in the corpus — click a judge to see theirs.

Most influential judges

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Ranked by total inbound citations to authored opinions. Court of Appeals judges are shown with full names; remaining entries are surname-level from the CourtListener dump, pending full disambiguation.

Most-cited NY decisions

Inbound citation counts from the live citation graph · the cases every NY litigator cites.