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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Ohio Court of Appeals / Joined 1947 / Served to 1971

Oscar A. Hunsicker Sr.

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Oscar A. Hunsicker Sr. was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1947. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1898–1983
Tenure: 1947–1971 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1947	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

Case Western Reserve University

Judicial Record

In our data, Hunsicker authored 348 published opinions for the court (1947–1981), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Rossen v. Rossen (29 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. 122 of these were attributed to Hunsicker 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
1964	Rossen v. Rossen	208 N.E.2d 764	29
1954	St. Paul Mercury Indemnity Co. v. Kopp†	70 Ohio Law. Abs. 259	23
1972	Libis v. Board of Zoning Appeals	292 N.E.2d 642	21
1953	McInnish v. Sibit	183 N.E.2d 237	21
1958	Babyak v. Alten	154 N.E.2d 14	20
1965	State v. Nichols	209 N.E.2d 750	19
1953	State v. Brown	168 N.E.2d 419	19
1969	Gearhart v. Angeloff	244 N.E.2d 802	18
1963	State, Ex Rel. Parker v. Konopka	200 N.E.2d 695	18
1961	Falls Lumber Co. v. Heman	181 N.E.2d 713	18
1954	State ex rel. Raydel v. Raible†	69 Ohio Law. Abs. 356	18
1965	Marcum v. Ohio Match Co.	212 N.E.2d 425	17
1964	Yerrick v. East Ohio Gas Co.	198 N.E.2d 472	17
1961	Freedline v. Cielensky	184 N.E.2d 433	17
1960	Henline v. Wilson	174 N.E.2d 122	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 350 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 Ohio Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Oscar A. Hunsicker Sr. on?: Oscar A. Hunsicker Sr. was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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24 years on the Ohio Court of Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).