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Supreme Court of Ohio / Joined 1950 / Served to 1954

Henry A. Middleton

Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio

Henry A. Middleton was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, who joined the court in 1950. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1888–1975
Tenure: 1950–1954 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1950	Supreme Court of Ohio	–	–

Education

Boston University

Judicial Record

In our data, Middleton authored 68 published opinions for the court (1951–1954), plus 17 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Kelley Kar Co. v. Finkler (64 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. 80 of these were attributed to Middleton 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
1951	Kelley Kar Co. v. Finkler	99 N.E.2d 665	64
1951	Larrissey v. Norwalk Truck Lines, Inc.· Dissent†	98 N.E.2d 419	59
1951	Erdman v. Mestrovich· Dissent†	97 N.E.2d 674	48
1951	Jelm v. Jelm	98 N.E.2d 401	40
1951	Shannon v. Bureau of Unemployment Compensation	97 N.E.2d 425	28
1951	Foutts v. Journeymen Barbers, Hairdressers & Cosmetologists' International Union· Dissent†	99 N.E.2d 782	15
1951	O'Neill v. German	97 N.E.2d 8	12
1951	Ohio Power Co. v. Deist	96 N.E.2d 771	12
1951	Clancy v. Cleveland Trust Co.· Dissent†	99 N.E.2d 483	7
1951	State v. Shaffer	99 N.E.2d 479	3
1951	C. F. Kettering, Inc. v. Glander	98 N.E.2d 793	3
1951	City of Galion v. City of Galion	96 N.E.2d 881	1
1954	Hughes v. Oberholtzer†	162 Ohio St. (N.S.) 330	0
1954	Committee for Marion County Bar Ass'n v. County of Marion· Dissent†	162 Ohio St. (N.S.) 345	0
1954	First National Securities Corp. v. Hott†	162 Ohio St. (N.S.) 258	0

Showing the 15 most-cited of 88 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 Henry A. Middleton on?: Henry A. Middleton was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio.

Sources

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4 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).