How do judges of the Ohio Court of Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Ohio Court of Appeals / Joined 1937 / Served to 1973

Arthur W. Doyle

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Arthur W. Doyle was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1937. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1937–1973 · 36 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1937	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Doyle authored 393 published opinions for the court (1937–1977), plus 3 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Smith v. Smith (57 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. 122 of these were attributed to Doyle 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
1957	Smith v. Smith	146 N.E.2d 454	57
1946	State v. Martin	68 N.E.2d 807	39
1957	Vanderschrier v. Aaron	140 N.E.2d 819	36
1963	B. F. Goodrich Co. v. Wohlgemuth	192 N.E.2d 99	33
1943	Moskowitz v. Federman	51 N.E.2d 48	31
1950	Kuck Et v. Sommers Et†	59 Ohio Law. Abs. 400	26
1947	Hill v. Skinner	79 N.E.2d 787	24
1955	Pumphrey v. Quillen	141 N.E.2d 675	23
1960	State v. Schaffer	177 N.E.2d 534	20
1948	State v. Jackson	81 N.E.2d 546	20
1941	Wiley v. Wharton	41 N.E.2d 255	20
1953	Village of Avon v. Popa	121 N.E.2d 254	19
1952	State v. Ross	108 N.E.2d 77	19
1952	Bowman v. Goldsmith Bros.†	63 Ohio Law. Abs. 428	19
1952	Manos v. Day Cleaners & Dyers, Inc.	108 N.E.2d 347	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 399 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 Ohio Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Arthur W. Doyle on?: Arthur W. Doyle was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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36 years on the Ohio Court of Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).