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Supreme Court of Ohio / Joined 1933 / Served to 1969

Charles Ballard Zimmerman

Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio

Charles Ballard Zimmerman was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, who joined the court in 1933. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1891–1969
Tenure: 1933–1969 · 35 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

Wittenberg University
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Zimmerman authored 453 published opinions for the court (1933–1969), plus 114 dissents and 31 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Dehass (7,146 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. 300 of these were attributed to Zimmerman 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
1967	State v. Dehass†	10 Ohio St. 2d 230	7,146
1940	Steiner v. Custer	31 N.E.2d 855	253
1943	Johnson v. Wagner Provision Co.	49 N.E.2d 925	216
1950	Hallworth v. Republic Steel Corp.· Dissent	91 N.E.2d 690	139
1967	City of Mentor v. Giordano†	9 Ohio St. 2d 140	134
1968	Jeswald v. Hutt†	15 Ohio St. 2d 224	126
1936	Bolles v. Toledo Trust Co.	4 N.E.2d 917	125
1940	State Ex Rel. Merion v. Court of Common Pleas	28 N.E.2d 641	120
1966	State ex rel. Sibarco Corp. v. City of Berea· Dissent†	7 Ohio St. 2d 85	119
1949	Maggio v. City of Cleveland	84 N.E.2d 912	119
1950	Boles v. Montgomery Ward & Co.	92 N.E.2d 9	114
1935	Swoboda v. Brown· Dissent	196 N.E. 274	114
1941	Direct Plumbing Supply Co. v. City of Dayton· Dissent	38 N.E.2d 70	110
1951	Andrianos v. Community Traction Co.	97 N.E.2d 549	103
1968	Donnelly v. City of Fairview Park†	13 Ohio St. 2d 1	95

Showing the 15 most-cited of 599 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 Charles Ballard Zimmerman on?: Charles Ballard Zimmerman was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio.

Sources

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35 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).