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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Ohio / Joined 1969 / Served to 1971

Robert Morton Duncan

Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio

Robert Morton Duncan was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, who joined the court in 1969. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1927–2012
Tenure: 1969–1971 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1969	Supreme Court of Ohio	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Duncan authored 33 published opinions for the court (1969–1971), plus 6 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Fortner v. Thomas (308 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. 45 of these were attributed to Duncan 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
1970	Fortner v. Thomas· Concurrence†	22 Ohio St. 2d 13	308
1970	Olmstead v. Lumbermens Mutual Ins.†	22 Ohio St. 2d 212	117
1969	In re Agler· Concurrence†	19 Ohio St. 2d 70	108
1970	Union Savings Ass'n v. Home Owners Aid, Inc.†	23 Ohio St. 2d 60	105
1969	Strattman v. Studt†	20 Ohio St. 2d 95	100
1971	State v. Hardy†	28 Ohio St. 2d 89	91
1970	Briere v. Lathrop Co.†	22 Ohio St. 2d 166	90
1971	State v. Myers†	26 Ohio St. 2d 190	87
1970	State ex rel. Northern Ohio Telephone Co. v. Winter†	23 Ohio St. 2d 6	82
1971	Seeley v. Expert, Inc.· Dissent†	26 Ohio St. 2d 61	72
1970	Wheeling Steel Corp. v. Porterfield†	24 Ohio St. 2d 24	59
1971	State v. Berry†	25 Ohio St. 2d 255	54
1969	State ex rel. Hofstetter v. Kronk†	20 Ohio St. 2d 117	51
1971	Fox v. Morrison Motor Freight, Inc.†	25 Ohio St. 2d 193	49
1969	Fankhauser v. City of Mansfield†	19 Ohio St. 2d 102	43

Showing the 15 most-cited of 45 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 Robert Morton Duncan on?: Robert Morton Duncan was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio.

Sources

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2 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).