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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Ohio Court of Appeals / Joined 2003 / Active

Sean C. Gallagher

Judge, Ohio Court of Appeals

Sean C. Gallagher is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals, serving since 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2003 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	Ohio Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Gallagher authored 58 published opinions for the court (2003–2009), plus 9 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Lett (79 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. 5 of these were attributed to Gallagher 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
2005	State v. Lett· Dissent	829 N.E.2d 1281	79
2008	Northpoint Properties, Inc. v. Petticord†	179 Ohio App. 3d 342	52
2006	City of Cleveland v. Welms· Dissent	169 Ohio App. 3d 600	52
2004	I Sports v. Img Worldwide, Inc.	813 N.E.2d 4	49
2009	State v. Clay	910 N.E.2d 14	33
2004	Hinkle v. Cleveland Clinic Foundation	823 N.E.2d 945	31
2005	Marchel v. Marchel	826 N.E.2d 887	26
2006	Chesnut v. Progressive Casualty Insurance· Dissent	850 N.E.2d 751	22
2003	State v. Vlahopoulos· Concurrence	797 N.E.2d 580	19
2007	State v. Pierce, 88470 (7-19-2007)	2007 Ohio 3665	18
2007	Wilder v. Perna	174 Ohio App. 3d 586	17
2008	Sabitov v. Graines	894 N.E.2d 1310	15
2007	State v. Clark, 88731 (7-26-2007)	2007 Ohio 3777	14
2008	National City Bank v. Yevu	898 N.E.2d 52	13
2008	Director of Transportation v. Eastlake Land Development Co.· Concurrence	894 N.E.2d 1255	11

Showing the 15 most-cited of 74 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 is Sean C. Gallagher on?: Sean C. Gallagher is a Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals.

Sources

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23 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).