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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Illinois Supreme Court / Joined 1893 / Served to 1901

Jesse J. Phillips

Justice, Illinois Supreme Court

Jesse J. Phillips was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1893. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1837–1901
Tenure: 1893–1901 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1893	Illinois Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Phillips authored 384 published opinions for the court (1893–1900), plus 9 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Doremus v. Hennessy (170 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. 392 of these were attributed to Phillips 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
1898	Doremus v. Hennessy†	176 Ill. 608	170
1899	In re Day· Dissent†	181 Ill. 73	144
1896	Meadowcroft v. People· Dissent†	163 Ill. 56	87
1898	Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad v. Driscoll†	176 Ill. 330	84
1897	Home Savings Bank v. Bierstadt†	168 Ill. 618	76
1898	Gundling v. City of Chicago†	176 Ill. 340	63
1898	City of Chicago v. Collins	175 Ill. 445	62
1894	Chicago Anderson Pressed Brick Co. v. Sobkowiak†	148 Ill. 573	59
1898	Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co. v. City of Chicago†	173 Ill. 91	57
1900	North Chicago Street Railroad v. Dudgeon†	184 Ill. 477	53
1897	Kochersperger v. Drake†	167 Ill. 122	52
1896	Waughop v. Bartlett†	165 Ill. 124	52
1900	Barclay v. Barclay†	184 Ill. 375	51
1899	Fullenwider v. Supreme Council of Royal League†	180 Ill. 621	50
1895	Illinois Central Railroad v. O'Keefe†	154 Ill. 508	49

Showing the 15 most-cited of 394 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 Jesse J. Phillips on?: Jesse J. Phillips was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court.

Sources

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8 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).