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Supreme Court of Ohio / Joined 1987 / Served to 2010

Thomas J. Moyer

Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio

Thomas J. Moyer was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, who joined the court in 1987. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1939–2010
Tenure: 1987–2010 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1987	Supreme Court of Ohio	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Moyer authored 899 published opinions for the court (1987–2010), plus 224 dissents and 109 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Burnside (2,261 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. 956 of these were attributed to Moyer 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
2003	State v. Burnside†	100 Ohio St. 3d 152	2,261
1990	State v. Schiebel†	55 Ohio St. 3d 71	1,644
1995	State v. Carter†	72 Ohio St. 3d 545	1,439
1997	Goldfuss v. Davidson†	79 Ohio St. 3d 116	1,335
2000	State v. Madrigal†	87 Ohio St. 3d 378	1,280
2003	Westfield Insurance v. Galatis· Concurrence†	100 Ohio St. 3d 216	1,062
1988	State v. Bobo†	37 Ohio St. 3d 177	1,010
1991	In re Jane Doe 1· Dissent†	57 Ohio St. 3d 135	969
1995	State v. Garner†	74 Ohio St. 3d 49	957
1995	Horton v. Harwick Chemical Corp.· Concurrence†	73 Ohio St. 3d 679	900
1996	State v. Hill†	75 Ohio St. 3d 195	802
1990	State v. Landrum†	53 Ohio St. 3d 107	737
2008	State v. Veney†	120 Ohio St. 3d 176	725
1989	Chef Italiano Corp. v. Kent State Univ.· Dissent†	44 Ohio St. 3d 86	682
2008	State v. Clark†	119 Ohio St. 3d 239	654

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,232 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 Thomas J. Moyer on?: Thomas J. Moyer was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio.

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23 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).