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Supreme Court of Ohio / Joined 1946 / Served to 1948

Robert M. Sohngen

Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio

Robert M. Sohngen was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, who joined the court in 1946. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1887–1953
Tenure: 1946–1948 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1946	Supreme Court of Ohio	–	–

Education

Cornell University

Judicial Record

In our data, Sohngen authored 25 published opinions for the court (1947–1948), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Fyr-Fyter Co. v. Glander (24 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. 2 of these were attributed to Sohngen 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
1948	Fyr-Fyter Co. v. Glander	80 N.E.2d 776	24
1947	State Ex Rel. Witten v. Ferguson	76 N.E.2d 886	19
1947	B. F. Keith Columbus Co. v. Board of Revision	74 N.E.2d 359	17
1947	McBride v. Prudential Ins. Co. of America	72 N.E.2d 98	17
1947	Phoenix Amusement Co. v. Glander	76 N.E.2d 605	16
1947	Henrich v. Hoffman, Judge	72 N.E.2d 458	15
1947	Roessler v. Security Savings & Loan Co.	72 N.E.2d 259	11
1947	Norwalk Truck Line Co. v. Public Utilities Commission	74 N.E.2d 328	8
1948	City of Cleveland v. Terrill	80 N.E.2d 115	7
1948	Jones v. Glander	80 N.E.2d 766	6
1947	Trustees of University of Pennsylvania v. Troxel	74 N.E.2d 251	5
1948	New Orphans' Asylum of Colored Children v. Board of Tax Appeals	80 N.E.2d 761	4
1947	Shaw v. Myers	76 N.E.2d 603	4
1947	State Ex Rel. Glander v. Ferguson· Dissent	76 N.E.2d 373	4
1948	State, Ex Rel. v. Indus. Comm.	83 N.E.2d 226	2

Showing the 15 most-cited of 26 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 M. Sohngen on?: Robert M. Sohngen 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).