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Illinois Supreme Court / Joined 1948 / Served to 1953

Albert M. Crampton

Justice, Illinois Supreme Court

Albert M. Crampton was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1948. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1900–1953
Tenure: 1948–1953 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1948	Illinois Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Cornell University

Judicial Record

In our data, Crampton authored 148 published opinions for the court (1948–1953), plus 13 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: The People v. Deatherage (119 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. 58 of these were attributed to Crampton 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	The People v. Deatherage	81 N.E.2d 581	119
1952	Stalder v. Stone· Dissent†	107 N.E.2d 696	105
1953	People Ex Rel. Gutknecht v. City of Chicago· Dissent†	111 N.E.2d 626	95
1952	People v. Reeves†	107 N.E.2d 861	94
1951	Walters v. Walters	99 N.E.2d 342	86
1950	Freeport Motor Casualty Co. v. Tharp	94 N.E.2d 139	64
1952	People v. Tilley	104 N.E.2d 499	49
1950	Moore v. Moyle· Dissent†	92 N.E.2d 81	49
1949	The People v. Tanthorey	89 N.E.2d 403	47
1948	In Re Estate of Frayser	82 N.E.2d 633	47
1952	Doubler v. Doubler	107 N.E.2d 789	46
1951	Cedar Park Cemetery Ass'n, Inc. v. Cooper†	96 N.E.2d 482	42
1950	People v. Levisen	90 N.E.2d 213	42
1950	People v. Polenik	95 N.E.2d 414	40
1952	Bremer v. Bremer· Dissent†	104 N.E.2d 299	39

Showing the 15 most-cited of 162 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 Illinois Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Albert M. Crampton on?: Albert M. Crampton was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court.

Sources

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4 years on the Illinois Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).