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Supreme Court of Ohio / Joined 1933 / Served to 1962

Carl V. Weygandt

Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio

Carl V. Weygandt was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, who joined the court in 1933. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1888–1964
Tenure: 1933–1962 · 29 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1933	Supreme Court of Ohio	–	–

Education

The College of Wooster
Case Western Reserve University

Judicial Record

In our data, Weygandt authored 367 published opinions for the court (1933–1962), plus 70 dissents and 22 concurrences. Most cited: Sears v. Weimer (277 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. 214 of these were attributed to Weygandt 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
1944	Sears v. Weimer· Dissent	55 N.E.2d 413	277
1944	Taylor v. City of Cincinnati· Dissent	55 N.E.2d 724	192
1943	Lester v. Leuck	50 N.E.2d 145	162
1947	State v. Petro· Dissent	76 N.E.2d 355	131
1941	State Ex Rel. Ellis v. McCabe	35 N.E.2d 571	112
1946	Bush v. Harvey Transfer Co.· Dissent	67 N.E.2d 851	108
1949	Hart v. Republic Mutual Ins.	87 N.E.2d 347	96
1943	In Re Kurtzhalz	48 N.E.2d 657	85
1951	Kelley Kar Co. v. Finkler· Dissent†	99 N.E.2d 665	64
1943	Halkias v. Wilkoff Co.· Dissent	46 N.E.2d 199	62
1940	State Ex Rel. Industrial Commission v. Day	26 N.E.2d 1014	61
1948	Taylor v. Ross	83 N.E.2d 222	59
1936	Goldberg v. Industrial Commission	3 N.E.2d 364	59
1936	Eastman v. State	1 N.E.2d 140	57
1937	National Life Ins. Co. v. Kohn	11 N.E.2d 1020	54

Showing the 15 most-cited of 459 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 Carl V. Weygandt on?: Carl V. Weygandt was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio.

Sources

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29 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).