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Supreme Court of Ohio / Joined 1949 / Served to 1970

Kingsley A. Taft

Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio

Kingsley A. Taft was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, who joined the court in 1949. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1903–1970
Tenure: 1949–1970 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1949	Supreme Court of Ohio	–	–

Education

Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Taft authored 284 published opinions for the court (1949–1970), plus 108 dissents and 100 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Perry (2,571 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. 411 of these were attributed to Taft 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. Perry†	10 Ohio St. 2d 175	2,571
1967	State ex rel. Pressley v. Industrial Commission· Dissent†	11 Ohio St. 2d 141	1,186
1968	Sidle v. Humphrey†	13 Ohio St. 2d 45	537
1970	Rohde v. Farmer· Concurrence†	23 Ohio St. 2d 82	443
1967	Smith v. Flesher†	12 Ohio St. 2d 107	177
1968	City of Westerville v. Cunningham†	15 Ohio St. 2d 121	166
1950	Hallworth v. Republic Steel Corp.	91 N.E.2d 690	139
1966	Lonzrick v. Republic Steel Corp.· Dissent†	6 Ohio St. 2d 227	135
1949	Hart v. Republic Mutual Ins.· Dissent	87 N.E.2d 347	96
1967	Litsinger Sign Co. v. American Sign Co.· Concurrence†	11 Ohio St. 2d 1	90
1950	Gulla v. Straus· Concurrence	93 N.E.2d 662	84
1967	Cassidy v. Glossip†	12 Ohio St. 2d 17	82
1949	McNees v. Cincinnati Street Ry. Co.	89 N.E.2d 138	82
1965	Grossnickle v. Village of Germantown· Concurrence†	3 Ohio St. 2d 96	77
1965	Porter v. City of Oberlin†	1 Ohio St. 2d 143	77

Showing the 15 most-cited of 492 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 Kingsley A. Taft on?: Kingsley A. Taft was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio.

Sources

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21 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).