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Supreme Court of Ohio / Joined 1969 / Served to 1976

James Joseph Patrick Corrigan

Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio

James Joseph Patrick Corrigan was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, who joined the court in 1969. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1901–1982
Tenure: 1969–1976 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1969	Supreme Court of Ohio	–	–

Education

John Carroll University
Georgetown University

Judicial Record

In our data, Corrigan authored 107 published opinions for the court (1969–1976), plus 27 dissents and 14 concurrences. Most cited: Posin v. A. B. C. Motor Court Hotel, Inc. (510 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. 148 of these were attributed to Corrigan 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
1976	Posin v. A. B. C. Motor Court Hotel, Inc.†	45 Ohio St. 2d 271	510
1976	Bruni v. Tatsumi†	46 Ohio St. 2d 127	480
1976	Wolfe v. Wolfe· Dissent†	46 Ohio St. 2d 399	281
1975	Hahn v. Kotten†	43 Ohio St. 2d 237	251
1974	State v. Timson†	38 Ohio St. 2d 122	249
1975	Columbus Finance, Inc. v. Howard· Concurrence†	42 Ohio St. 2d 178	203
1970	Abate v. Pioneer Mutual Casualty Co.†	22 Ohio St. 2d 161	199
1974	In re Termination of Employment of Pratt· Concurrence†	40 Ohio St. 2d 107	176
1973	City of Cincinnati v. Cincinnati District Council 51· Dissent†	35 Ohio St. 2d 197	159
1976	State v. Robinson· Dissent†	47 Ohio St. 2d 103	146
1975	State v. Stone†	43 Ohio St. 2d 163	134
1971	Hoban v. Rice· Dissent†	25 Ohio St. 2d 111	111
1972	State v. Fairbanks†	32 Ohio St. 2d 34	109
1972	State v. Heston†	29 Ohio St. 2d 152	109
1973	Houk v. Ross†	34 Ohio St. 2d 77	104

Showing the 15 most-cited of 148 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 James Joseph Patrick Corrigan on?: James Joseph Patrick Corrigan was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio.

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7 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).