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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Illinois Supreme Court / Joined 1939 / Served to 1948

Loren E. Murphy

Justice, Illinois Supreme Court

Loren E. Murphy was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1939. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1882–1963
Tenure: 1939–1948 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1939	Illinois Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Judicial Record

In our data, Murphy authored 360 published opinions for the court (1939–1973), plus 5 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Schneiderman v. Interstate Transit Lines, Inc. (187 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. 10 of these were attributed to Murphy 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
1946	Schneiderman v. Interstate Transit Lines, Inc.	69 N.E.2d 293	187
1943	Ritter v. Ritter	46 N.E.2d 41	187
1948	Whitney v. Madden	79 N.E.2d 593	88
1945	Zurn v. City of Chicago· Dissent	59 N.E.2d 18	81
1940	Adler v. Adler	26 N.E.2d 504	65
1947	Anderson v. City of Park Ridge	72 N.E.2d 210	63
1942	Peoples Store of Roseland v. McKibbin	39 N.E.2d 995	57
1948	The People v. Casey	77 N.E.2d 812	51
1943	Ashton v. County of Cook	51 N.E.2d 161	49
1943	Chicago Title & Trust Co v. Wabash-Randolph Corp.	51 N.E.2d 132	47
1947	Routt v. Barrett	71 N.E.2d 660	46
1946	Zitnik v. Burik	69 N.E.2d 888	46
1942	Almon v. American Carloading Corp.	44 N.E.2d 592	45
1940	Furst v. Brady	31 N.E.2d 606	45
1947	Kane v. Johnson	73 N.E.2d 321	42

Showing the 15 most-cited of 369 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 Loren E. Murphy on?: Loren E. Murphy was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court.

Sources

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9 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).