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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Ohio / Joined 1977 / Served to 1994

Asher William Sweeney

Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio

Asher William Sweeney was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio (6 judges, selected by partisan election), who joined the court in 1977. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1920–2003
Tenure: 1977–1994 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1977	Supreme Court of Ohio	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Sweeney authored 191 published opinions for the court (1977–1992), plus 71 dissents and 21 concurrences. Most cited: Blakemore v. Blakemore (14,330 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. 283 of these were attributed to Sweeney 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
1983	Blakemore v. Blakemore†	5 Ohio St. 3d 217	14,330
1980	State v. Adams†	62 Ohio St. 2d 151	3,804
1987	State v. Sage· Concurrence†	31 Ohio St. 3d 173	1,978
1978	Alexander v. Buckeye Pipe Line Co.†	53 Ohio St. 2d 241	1,247
1989	Booth v. Booth†	44 Ohio St. 3d 142	1,162
1990	Berk v. Matthews†	53 Ohio St. 3d 161	987
1991	In re Jane Doe 1†	57 Ohio St. 3d 135	969
1983	Yeager v. Local Union 20, Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen & Helpers of America†	6 Ohio St. 3d 369	822
1988	State v. Deem· Concurrence†	40 Ohio St. 3d 205	773
1992	State v. Murnahan· Dissent†	63 Ohio St. 3d 60	753
1989	State v. George· Dissent†	45 Ohio St. 3d 325	672
1988	State v. Thomas· Dissent†	40 Ohio St. 3d 213	640
1981	Plumbers & Steamfitters Joint Apprenticeship Committee v. Ohio Civil Rights Commission†	66 Ohio St. 2d 192	593
1982	State v. Hankerson†	70 Ohio St. 2d 87	556
1980	Dupler v. Mansfield Journal Co.†	64 Ohio St. 2d 116	495

Showing the 15 most-cited of 283 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 Asher William Sweeney on?: Asher William Sweeney was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio.

Sources

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17 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).