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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Illinois Supreme Court / Joined 1907 / Served to 1933

Frank K. Dunn

Justice, Illinois Supreme Court

Frank K. Dunn was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1907. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1854–1940
Tenure: 1907–1933 · 26 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1907	Illinois Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Kenyon College
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Dunn authored 1,434 published opinions for the court (1907–1933), plus 26 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Golden v. Cervenka (136 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. 1,005 of these were attributed to Dunn 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
1917	Golden v. Cervenka†	278 Ill. 409	136
1933	Charles E. Harding Co. v. Harding	186 N.E. 152	117
1909	Walters v. City of Ottawa†	240 Ill. 259	108
1910	Babcock v. Farwell†	245 Ill. 14	100
1921	Stewart v. Brady	133 N.E. 310	99
1923	John Griffiths & Son Co. v. National Fireproofing Co.†	310 Ill. 331	91
1922	O'Brien v. Chicago City Railway Co.†	305 Ill. 244	88
1908	Yarber v. Chicago & Alton Railway Co.†	235 Ill. 589	88
1924	People v. Castree†	311 Ill. 392	87
1927	Western Theological Seminary v. City of Evanston	156 N.E. 778	85
1908	Bond v. Moore†	236 Ill. 576	80
1929	Chicago Railways Co. v. Commerce Commission Ex Rel. Chicago Motor Coach Co.	167 N.E. 840	79
1932	Rothschild v. Village of Calumet Park	183 N.E. 337	74
1927	The People v. Dwyer	155 N.E. 316	73
1925	Dekam v. City of Streator	146 N.E. 550	73

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,463 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 Frank K. Dunn on?: Frank K. Dunn was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court.

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26 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).