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Supreme Court of Ohio / Joined 1954 / Served to 1970

John M. Matthias

Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio

John M. Matthias was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio (6 judges, selected by partisan election), who joined the court in 1954. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1903–1973
Tenure: 1954–1970 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1954	Supreme Court of Ohio	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Matthias authored 171 published opinions for the court (1955–1970), plus 10 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Ohio v. Hymore (556 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. 187 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
1967	Ohio v. Hymore†	9 Ohio St. 2d 122	556
1967	McKay Machine Co. v. Rodman†	11 Ohio St. 2d 77	141
1966	State v. Swiger†	5 Ohio St. 2d 151	115
1965	Delfino v. Paul Davies Chevrolet, Inc.†	2 Ohio St. 2d 282	107
1970	State v. Starnes†	21 Ohio St. 2d 38	85
1968	American Financial Corp. v. Fireman's Fund Ins.†	15 Ohio St. 2d 171	73
1968	Stern v. Board of Elections· Dissent†	14 Ohio St. 2d 175	71
1967	Benda v. Fana†	10 Ohio St. 2d 259	66
1965	Munchick v. Fidelity & Casualty Co.†	2 Ohio St. 2d 303	66
1966	State v. Lynn†	5 Ohio St. 2d 106	56
1966	Household Finance Corp. v. Altenberg†	5 Ohio St. 2d 190	52
1968	State v. Fultz†	13 Ohio St. 2d 79	50
1966	Bahm v. Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Rd. Co.†	6 Ohio St. 2d 192	49
1965	Carroll Weir Funeral Home, Inc. v. Miller†	2 Ohio St. 2d 189	48
1965	Spalding v. Waxler†	2 Ohio St. 2d 1	45

Showing the 15 most-cited of 187 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 John M. Matthias on?: John M. Matthias was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio.

Sources

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15 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).