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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Illinois Supreme Court / Joined 1955 / Served to 1975

Charles H. Davis

Justice, Illinois Supreme Court

Charles H. Davis was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1955. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1906–1976
Tenure: 1955–1975 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1955	Illinois Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Davis authored 293 published opinions for the court (1955–1975), plus 32 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Molitor v. Kaneland Community Unit District No. 302 (560 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. 153 of these were attributed to Davis 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
1959	Molitor v. Kaneland Community Unit District No. 302· Dissent†	163 N.E.2d 89	560
1974	Carruthers v. B. C. Christopher & Co.	313 N.E.2d 457	277
1956	Belfield v. Coop†	134 N.E.2d 249	248
1957	The People v. Burson†	143 N.E.2d 239	234
1958	The People v. Coulson†	149 N.E.2d 96	174
1960	Western National Bank v. Village of Kildeer	167 N.E.2d 169	170
1974	Glidden v. Farmers Automobile Insurance	312 N.E.2d 247	169
1956	Nudd v. Matsoukas	131 N.E.2d 525	156
1959	Lau v. West Towns Bus Co.	158 N.E.2d 63	153
1972	People v. Joyner†	278 N.E.2d 756	150
1958	The People v. Malmenato†	150 N.E.2d 806	140
1975	People v. Jones	325 N.E.2d 601	136
1959	The People v. Lobb†	161 N.E.2d 325	136
1975	Hofeld v. Nationwide Life Insurance	322 N.E.2d 454	134
1974	People v. Wright	309 N.E.2d 537	132

Showing the 15 most-cited of 330 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 Charles H. Davis on?: Charles H. Davis was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court.

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20 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).