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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Ohio Court of Appeals / Joined 2005 / Served to 2011

Patrick M. McGrath

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Patrick M. McGrath was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 2005. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2005–2011 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2005	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, McGrath authored 172 published opinions for the court (2005–2022), plus 7 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: State Ex Rel. Petro v. Gold (106 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. 9 of these were attributed to McGrath 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
2006	State Ex Rel. Petro v. Gold	850 N.E.2d 1218	106
2007	Whitehall v. Ruckman, 07ap-445 (12-18-2007)	2007 Ohio 6780	34
2007	State v. Battle, 06ap-863 (4-19-2007)	2007 Ohio 1845	34
2008	State v. Reed, 08ap-20 (11-20-2008)	2008 Ohio 6082	32
2008	State v. Ingold, 07ap-648 (5-13-2008)	2008 Ohio 2303	31
2008	Midstate Educators Credit Union, Inc. v. Werner	886 N.E.2d 893	29
2007	In Re M.E.G., 06ap-1256 (8-23-2007)	2007 Ohio 4308	24
2007	Leslie v. Ohio Department of Development	869 N.E.2d 687	24
2006	Dispatch Printing Co. v. Recovery Ltd. Partnership	849 N.E.2d 297	23
2007	State v. Garrard· Dissent	170 Ohio App. 3d 487	22
2007	Tonti v. Tonti, 06ap-732 (5-31-2007)	2007 Ohio 2658	20
2008	Cunningham v. Ohio Dept. of Transp., 08ap-330 (12-30-2008)	2008 Ohio 6911	19
2008	State v. Hillman, 06ap-1230 (5-15-2008)	2008 Ohio 2341	17
2008	Rco International Corporation v. Clevenger	180 Ohio App. 3d 211	16
2008	Crosby-Edwards v. Ohio Board of Embalmers & Funeral Directors	886 N.E.2d 251	16

Showing the 15 most-cited of 186 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 Patrick M. McGrath on?: Patrick M. McGrath was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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5 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).