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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Illinois Supreme Court / Joined 1957 / Served to 1969

Byron O. House

Justice, Illinois Supreme Court

Byron O. House was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1957. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1902–1969
Tenure: 1957–1969 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1957	Illinois Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, House authored 388 published opinions for the court (1957–1969), plus 19 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Suvada v. White Motor Co. (671 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. 197 of these were attributed to House 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
1965	Suvada v. White Motor Co.†	210 N.E.2d 182	671
1964	Nelson v. Union Wire Rope Corp.· Dissent†	199 N.E.2d 769	429
1961	Knierim v. Izzo	174 N.E.2d 157	328
1967	Miller v. DeWitt· Dissent†	226 N.E.2d 630	280
1968	The People v. Stoval· Dissent†	239 N.E.2d 441	250
1960	The People v. Tranowski	169 N.E.2d 347	153
1958	Pyle v. Ferrell· Concurrence†	147 N.E.2d 341	153
1961	The PEOPLE v. Nettles	178 N.E.2d 361	152
1961	Cunningham v. Brown	174 N.E.2d 153	136
1959	The PEOPLE v. Pride	156 N.E.2d 551	124
1962	Frey v. Wubbena	185 N.E.2d 850	117
1969	Schek v. Chicago Transit Authority	247 N.E.2d 886	110
1966	The People v. Watson· Concurrence†	221 N.E.2d 645	106
1962	Caley v. Manicke	182 N.E.2d 206	104
1964	Murgic v. Granite City Trust & Savings Bank	202 N.E.2d 470	102

Showing the 15 most-cited of 416 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 Byron O. House on?: Byron O. House was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court.

Sources

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12 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).