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Supreme Court of Ohio / Joined 1915 / Served to 1953

Edward Shiloh Matthias

Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio

Edward Shiloh Matthias was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, who joined the court in 1915. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1873–1953
Tenure: 1915–1953 · 38 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1915	Supreme Court of Ohio	–	–

Education

Ohio Northern University

Judicial Record

In our data, Matthias authored 581 published opinions for the court (1915–1953), plus 57 dissents and 19 concurrences. Most cited: Land Title Abstract & Trust Co. v. Dworken (179 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. 244 of these were attributed to Matthias 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
1934	Land Title Abstract & Trust Co. v. Dworken	193 N.E. 650	179
1949	Zier v. Bureau of Unemployment Compensation	84 N.E.2d 746	128
1925	Blosser v. Enderlin	148 N.E. 393	117
1935	Swoboda v. Brown	196 N.E. 274	114
1941	Direct Plumbing Supply Co. v. City of Dayton· Concurrence	38 N.E.2d 70	110
1946	American Restaurant & Lunch Co. v. Glander	70 N.E.2d 93	108
1931	State v. Thayer· Concurrence	176 N.E. 656	103
1949	Williams v. Marion Rapid Transit, Inc.	87 N.E.2d 334	96
1946	Carter v. Division of Water	65 N.E.2d 63	93
1947	Brown-Brockmeyer Co. v. Roach	76 N.E.2d 79	81
1939	Luntz v. Stern	20 N.E.2d 241	79
1929	Chester Park Co. v. Schulte· Dissent	166 N.E. 186	74
1942	Malone v. Industrial Commission· Concurrence	43 N.E.2d 266	72
1946	Karr, Admr. v. Sixt· Dissent	67 N.E.2d 331	65
1929	Schneiderman v. Sesanstein	167 N.E. 158	65

Showing the 15 most-cited of 658 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 Edward Shiloh Matthias on?: Edward Shiloh Matthias was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio.

Sources

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38 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).