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Illinois Supreme Court / Joined 1970 / Served to 1987

Joseph H. Goldenhersh

Justice, Illinois Supreme Court

Joseph H. Goldenhersh was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1970. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1914–1992
Tenure: 1970–1987 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1970	Illinois Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Goldenhersh authored 479 published opinions for the court (1971–1987), plus 125 dissents and 23 concurrences. Most cited: People v. Perruquet (1,410 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. 275 of these were attributed to Goldenhersh 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
1977	People v. Perruquet· Dissent†	368 N.E.2d 882	1,410
1984	People v. Zehr	469 N.E.2d 1062	513
1984	People v. Tisler· Dissent†	469 N.E.2d 147	446
1981	People v. Lewis· Concurrence†	430 N.E.2d 1346	340
1974	Cunis v. Brennan· Dissent†	308 N.E.2d 617	324
1978	Skinner v. Reed-Prentice Division Package MacHinery Co.	374 N.E.2d 437	313
1974	Carruthers v. B. C. Christopher & Co.· Dissent†	313 N.E.2d 457	277
1983	People v. Emerson	455 N.E.2d 31	259
1981	People v. Gaines· Concurrence†	430 N.E.2d 1046	258
1976	People v. Gilmore	344 N.E.2d 456	255
1983	People v. Kubat· Dissent†	447 N.E.2d 247	250
1977	People v. Monroe	362 N.E.2d 295	221
1973	People v. Smothers†	302 N.E.2d 324	214
1977	People v. Wipfler· Dissent†	368 N.E.2d 870	209
1983	People v. Davis· Concurrence†	447 N.E.2d 353	208

Showing the 15 most-cited of 627 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 H. Goldenhersh on?: Joseph H. Goldenhersh was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court.

Sources

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17 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).