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Supreme Court of Ohio / Joined 1963 / Served to 1964

Rankin MacDougal Gibson

Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio

Rankin MacDougal Gibson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio (6 judges, selected by partisan election), who joined the court in 1963. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1916–2001
Tenure: 1963–1964 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1963	Supreme Court of Ohio	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Gibson authored 17 published opinions for the court (1963–1964), plus 21 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: State v. McLeod (51 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. 50 of these were attributed to Gibson 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	State v. McLeod· Dissent†	1 Ohio St. 2d 60	51
1964	Kane v. Quigley· Dissent†	1 Ohio St. 2d 1	27
1964	State v. Waldbillig· Dissent†	1 Ohio St. 2d 50	5
1964	State v. Maynard· Concurrence†	1 Ohio St. 2d 57	3
1964	Schneider v. Toledo Trust Co.· Dissent†	177 Ohio St. (N.S.) 136	0
1964	State v. Bernius· Concurrence†	177 Ohio St. (N.S.) 155	0
1964	State ex rel. Sibarco Corp. v. Hicks†	177 Ohio St. (N.S.) 81	0
1964	Madison v. Maxwell· Dissent†	177 Ohio St. (N.S.) 84	0
1964	State ex rel. Jones v. Ward†	177 Ohio St. (N.S.) 89	0
1964	Conlan v. Haskins· Dissent†	177 Ohio St. (N.S.) 65	0
1964	McKee v. City of Akron· Concurrence†	176 Ohio St. (N.S.) 282	0
1964	Mahoning County Bar Ass'n v. Ruffalo· Concurrence†	176 Ohio St. (N.S.) 263	0
1964	Leach v. Republic Steel Corp.· Dissent†	176 Ohio St. (N.S.) 221	0
1964	State ex rel. Kendrick v. Masheter†	176 Ohio St. (N.S.) 232	0
1964	Friedman Transfer & Construction Co. v. City of Youngstown· Dissent†	176 Ohio St. (N.S.) 209	0

Showing the 15 most-cited of 50 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 Rankin MacDougal Gibson on?: Rankin MacDougal Gibson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio.

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1 year 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).