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Supreme Court of Ohio / Joined 1934 / Served to 1946

Arthur Hughes Williams

Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio

Arthur Hughes Williams was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, who joined the court in 1934. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1874–1946
Tenure: 1934–1946 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1934	Supreme Court of Ohio	–	–

Education

Oberlin College

Judicial Record

In our data, Williams authored 159 published opinions for the court (1896–1949), plus 26 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: Hummel v. Hummel (326 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. 13 of these were attributed to Williams 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
1938	Hummel v. Hummel	14 N.E.2d 923	326
1937	Matz v. J. L. Curtis Cartage Co.	7 N.E.2d 220	100
1945	Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. v. Continental Casualty Co.	59 N.E.2d 199	99
1938	Schaefer v. First National Bank	18 N.E.2d 263	77
1937	State, Ex Rel. v. Indus. Comm.· Dissent	9 N.E.2d 505	74
1943	Halkias v. Wilkoff Co.· Dissent	46 N.E.2d 199	62
1938	Smith v. Erie Rd. Co.	16 N.E.2d 310	59
1942	Zangerle v. Evatt· Concurrence	41 N.E.2d 369	55
1944	Maryland Casualty Co. v. Frederick Co.· Concurrence	53 N.E.2d 795	54
1945	State v. Wildman	61 N.E.2d 790	52
1939	Industrial Gas Co. v. Public Utilities Commission	21 N.E.2d 166	50
1938	Juhasz v. Juhasz	16 N.E.2d 328	49
1944	City of Toledo v. Jenkins	54 N.E.2d 656	48
1945	Dailey v. Dailey	64 N.E.2d 246	47
1936	North v. Higbee Co.· Dissent	3 N.E.2d 391	47

Showing the 15 most-cited of 197 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 Supreme Court of Ohio reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Arthur Hughes Williams on?: Arthur Hughes Williams was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio.

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