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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Illinois Supreme Court / Joined 1918 / Served to 1948

Clyde Ernest Stone

Justice, Illinois Supreme Court

Clyde Ernest Stone was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1918. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1876–1948
Tenure: 1918–1948 · 30 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1918	Illinois Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Stone authored 1,287 published opinions for the court (1918–1947), plus 42 dissents and 27 concurrences. Most cited: Carson Pirie Scott & Co. v. Parrett (196 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. 359 of these were attributed to Stone 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
1931	Carson Pirie Scott & Co. v. Parrett	178 N.E. 498	196
1946	Westinghouse Electric Elevator Co. v. LaSalle Monroe Building Corp.	70 N.E.2d 604	161
1939	Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co. v. Slattery· Dissent	25 N.E.2d 482	103
1932	Forbes v. Hubbard	180 N.E. 767	96
1941	Harley v. Magnolia Petroleum Co.	37 N.E.2d 760	93
1938	The People v. Green· Dissent	13 N.E.2d 278	89
1931	Dee v. City of Peru	174 N.E. 901	89
1933	Gebhardt v. Village of Lagrange Park	188 N.E. 372	87
1942	The People v. Montana	44 N.E.2d 569	85
1941	City of Geneseo v. Illinois Northern Utilities Co.· Dissent	39 N.E.2d 26	82
1937	Schwartz v. Schwartz	8 N.E.2d 668	77
1945	The People v. Chi. Transit Authority	64 N.E.2d 4	73
1941	Goodrich v. Sprague	32 N.E.2d 897	73
1930	The People v. Fisher	172 N.E. 743	71
1937	Grubb v. Illinois Terminal Co.	8 N.E.2d 934	68

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,358 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 Clyde Ernest Stone on?: Clyde Ernest Stone was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court.

Sources

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30 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).