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Appellate Court of Illinois / Joined 1965 / Served to 1978

Edward C. Eberspacher

Justice, Appellate Court of Illinois

Edward C. Eberspacher was a Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois, who joined the court in 1965. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1965–1978 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1965	Appellate Court of Illinois	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Eberspacher authored 540 published opinions for the court (1950–1978), plus 31 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: Ledingham v. Blue Cross Plan for Hospital Care of Hospital Service Corp. (113 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. 185 of these were attributed to Eberspacher 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
1975	Ledingham v. Blue Cross Plan for Hospital Care of Hospital Service Corp.	330 N.E.2d 540	113
1967	Watson Lumber Co. v. Guennewig	226 N.E.2d 270	75
1976	Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Coronet Insurance	358 N.E.2d 914	70
1966	Citizens Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Fischer	214 N.E.2d 612	68
1973	Marcus v. Green	300 N.E.2d 512	59
1971	Galluccio v. the Hertz Corp.	274 N.E.2d 178	54
1976	Kapelski v. Alton & Southern Railroad	343 N.E.2d 207	43
1973	Wallace v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America	299 N.E.2d 344	41
1978	People v. Spicer	378 N.E.2d 169	40
1976	Neville v. Davinroy	355 N.E.2d 86	38
1973	Martin v. Kralis Poultry Co.	297 N.E.2d 610	36
1977	People v. Meng	369 N.E.2d 549	35
1973	Waldron v. Waldron	301 N.E.2d 167	35
1972	Dasenbrock v. Interstate Restaurant Corp.	287 N.E.2d 151	35
1971	La Salle National Bank v. Hoffman	274 N.E.2d 640	35

Showing the 15 most-cited of 582 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 Appellate Court of Illinois reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Edward C. Eberspacher on?: Edward C. Eberspacher was a Justice of the Appellate Court of Illinois.

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13 years on the Appellate Court of Illinois. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).