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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Illinois Supreme Court / Joined 1969 / Served to 1970

Caswell J. Crebs

Justice, Illinois Supreme Court

Caswell J. Crebs was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1969. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1912 · age 114
Tenure: 1969–1970 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1969	Illinois Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of California-Los Angeles

Judicial Record

In our data, Crebs authored 73 published opinions for the court (1969–1976). Most cited: People v. Mayberry (110 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. 37 of these were attributed to Crebs 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
1976	People v. Mayberry	345 N.E.2d 97	110
1976	People Ex Rel. Gibson v. Cannon	357 N.E.2d 1180	108
1976	Walker v. State Board of Elections	359 N.E.2d 113	106
1970	The PEOPLE v. Koshiol†	262 N.E.2d 446	105
1970	The People v. Hudson†	263 N.E.2d 473	89
1976	Hamer v. Kirk	356 N.E.2d 524	86
1970	The PEOPLE v. Williams†	264 N.E.2d 697	80
1976	Rios v. Jones	348 N.E.2d 825	74
1976	City of Evanston v. Ridgeview House, Inc.	349 N.E.2d 399	72
1970	The People v. Martin†	265 N.E.2d 685	69
1976	People v. Donalson	356 N.E.2d 776	67
1976	People v. Edwards	345 N.E.2d 496	61
1976	People v. Williams	357 N.E.2d 525	60
1970	The PEOPLE v. Spicer†	264 N.E.2d 181	60
1970	The PEOPLE v. Nicholls†	256 N.E.2d 818	60

Showing the 15 most-cited of 73 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 Caswell J. Crebs on?: Caswell J. Crebs was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court.

Sources

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1 year 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).