How do judges of the Illinois Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Illinois Supreme Court / Joined 1897 / Served to 1906

Carroll C. Boggs

Justice, Illinois Supreme Court

Carroll C. Boggs was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1897. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1844–1923
Tenure: 1897–1906 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1897	Illinois Supreme Court	–	–

Education

McKendree University

Judicial Record

In our data, Boggs authored 546 published opinions for the court (1897–1906), plus 4 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: In re Day (144 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. 550 of these were attributed to Boggs 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
1899	In re Day· Concurrence†	181 Ill. 73	144
1900	Allaire v. St. Luke's Hospital· Dissent†	184 Ill. 359	109
1905	Parks v. Northwestern University†	218 Ill. 381	98
1902	Fitz Simons & Connell Co. v. Braun & Fitts†	199 Ill. 390	77
1902	Yates v. Royal Insurance†	200 Ill. 202	73
1898	Kinnare v. City of Chicago†	171 Ill. 332	72
1903	Bonney v. King†	201 Ill. 47	61
1898	Gavin v. Curtin†	171 Ill. 640	60
1897	Grand Lodge Independent Order of Mutual Aid v. Wieting†	168 Ill. 408	60
1898	Knight v. Pottgieser†	176 Ill. 368	54
1900	Barclay v. Barclay· Concurrence†	184 Ill. 375	51
1904	Burke v. Snively†	208 Ill. 328	48
1900	Odin Coal Co. v. Denman†	185 Ill. 413	46
1903	Zachmann v. Zachmann†	201 Ill. 380	45
1898	Martin v. Martin†	174 Ill. 371	44

Showing the 15 most-cited of 553 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 Carroll C. Boggs on?: Carroll C. Boggs was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court.

Sources

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9 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).