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Supreme Court of Ohio / Joined 1935 / Served to 1940

William H. Day

Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio

William H. Day was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, who joined the court in 1935. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1890–1967
Tenure: 1935–1940 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1935	Supreme Court of Ohio	–	–

Education

Ohio Wesleyan University
Case Western Reserve University

Judicial Record

In our data, Day authored 235 published opinions for the court (1872–1940), plus 16 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Ferranto (357 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 Day 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
1925	State v. Ferranto	148 N.E. 362	357
1928	Kennedy v. Walcutt	161 N.E. 336	91
1926	Frate v. Rimenik	152 N.E. 14	88
1927	Glowacki v. North Western Ohio Ry. & Power Co.· Dissent	157 N.E. 21	85
1939	Englehardt v. Philipps· Concurrence†	23 N.E.2d 829	75
1933	Munic. Court v. State, Ex Rel.	184 N.E. 1	73
1930	Ciski v. Wentworth	172 N.E. 276	72
1923	Tax Commission v. Oswald	141 N.E. 678	61
1939	Douglas v. Daniels Bros. Coal Co.	22 N.E.2d 195	59
1933	Northwestern Ohio Natural Gas Co. v. First Congregational Church	184 N.E. 512	58
1935	Holloway v. Holloway	198 N.E. 579	55
1929	Bloom v. Leech, Admr.	166 N.E. 137	55
1925	Jones v. Stevens	146 N.E. 894	55
1936	Kormos v. Cleveland Retail Credit Men's Co.· Dissent	3 N.E.2d 427	54
1927	Pennsylvania Rd. Co. v. Rusynik	159 N.E. 826	50

Showing the 15 most-cited of 258 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 William H. Day on?: William H. Day was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio.

Sources

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5 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).