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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Illinois Supreme Court / Joined 1929 / Served to 1930

Henry Paul Samuell

Justice, Illinois Supreme Court

Henry Paul Samuell was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1929. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1886–1938
Tenure: 1929–1930 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1929	Illinois Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Samuell authored 22 published opinions for the court (1929–1930). Most cited: The People v. Fiorita (72 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.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1930	The People v. Fiorita	170 N.E. 690	72
1929	Levinson v. Home Bank and Trust Co.	169 N.E. 193	24
1929	The People v. McCurrie	169 N.E. 214	21
1930	Eckardt v. Osborne	170 N.E. 774	17
1930	Tripp v. Payne	171 N.E. 131	16
1930	The People v. Yates	171 N.E. 557	14
1930	Yunkes v. Webb	170 N.E. 709	14
1929	Joseph v. Evans	170 N.E. 10	14
1929	Jones v. Loaleen Mutual Benefit Ass'n	169 N.E. 254	12
1929	Wylie v. Fisher	169 N.E. 237	12
1930	The People v. Caruso	171 N.E. 128	10
1930	The People v. O'Grady	171 N.E. 143	6
1929	Retzinger v. Retzinger	169 N.E. 176	5
1930	The People v. Schuster	170 N.E. 726	4
1930	Weaver v. Ashcraft	171 N.E. 139	3

Showing the 15 most-cited of 22 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 Henry Paul Samuell on?: Henry Paul Samuell was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court.

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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).