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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Illinois Supreme Court / Joined 1948 / Served to 1963

Joseph E. Daily

Justice, Illinois Supreme Court

Joseph E. Daily was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1948. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1888–1965
Tenure: 1948–1963 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1948	Illinois Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Yale University

Judicial Record

In our data, Daily authored 501 published opinions for the court (1948–2003), plus 5 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: La Salle National Bank v. County of Cook (390 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. 149 of these were attributed to Daily 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
1957	La Salle National Bank v. County of Cook· Dissent†	145 N.E.2d 65	390
1965	Larson v. Commonwealth Edison Co.	211 N.E.2d 247	255
1962	John v. Tribune Company	181 N.E.2d 105	181
1960	The People v. Watkins· Concurrence†	166 N.E.2d 433	176
1955	Heimgaertner v. Benjamin Electric Manufacturing Co.	128 N.E.2d 691	160
1958	Pyle v. Ferrell	147 N.E.2d 341	153
1957	The People v. MacK	145 N.E.2d 609	150
1965	Metz v. Central Illinois Electric & Gas Co.	207 N.E.2d 305	149
1960	The People v. Wolff†	167 N.E.2d 197	145
1963	Bowman v. County of Lake	193 N.E.2d 833	143
1952	Ellman v. De Ruiter	106 N.E.2d 350	137
1959	The People v. Baker	158 N.E.2d 1	122
1952	People v. Morreale†	107 N.E.2d 721	99
1964	Chmelik v. Vana	201 N.E.2d 434	97
1953	People v. Marino	111 N.E.2d 534	96

Showing the 15 most-cited of 509 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 Joseph E. Daily on?: Joseph E. Daily was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court.

Sources

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15 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).