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Supreme Court of Ohio / Joined 1934 / Served to 1959

Roy L. Hart

Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio

Roy L. Hart was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, who joined the court in 1934. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1867–1962
Tenure: 1934–1959 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1934	Supreme Court of Ohio	–	–

Education

University of Mount Union

Judicial Record

In our data, Hart authored 265 published opinions for the court (1934–1956), plus 68 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: Stevens v. Industrial Commission (400 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. 101 of these were attributed to Hart 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
1945	Stevens v. Industrial Commission	61 N.E.2d 198	400
1943	Norwood v. McDonald	52 N.E.2d 67	339
1944	Taylor v. City of Cincinnati	55 N.E.2d 724	192
1948	Wachendorf v. Shaver· Dissent	78 N.E.2d 370	172
1947	Weis v. Weis	72 N.E.2d 245	172
1943	Lester v. Leuck· Dissent	50 N.E.2d 145	162
1948	Tighe v. Diamond	80 N.E.2d 122	128
1950	Mudrich v. Standard Oil Co.· Dissent	90 N.E.2d 859	124
1940	Losito v. Kruse, Jr.	24 N.E.2d 705	118
1946	Bush v. Harvey Transfer Co.	67 N.E.2d 851	108
1944	Rice v. City of Cleveland	58 N.E.2d 768	105
1946	Saberton v. Greenwald· Dissent	66 N.E.2d 224	97
1945	Home Indemnity Co. v. Village of Plymouth	64 N.E.2d 248	97
1950	Gulla v. Straus	93 N.E.2d 662	84
1949	McNees v. Cincinnati Street Ry. Co.· Dissent	89 N.E.2d 138	82

Showing the 15 most-cited of 349 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 Roy L. Hart on?: Roy L. Hart was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio.

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24 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).