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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Illinois Supreme Court / Joined 1933 / Served to 1937

Lott R. Herrick

Justice, Illinois Supreme Court

Lott R. Herrick was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1933. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1871–1937
Tenure: 1933–1937 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1933	Illinois Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Judicial Record

In our data, Herrick authored 185 published opinions for the court (1933–1937), plus 11 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Reif v. Barrett (137 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. 4 of these were attributed to Herrick 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
1933	Reif v. Barrett	188 N.E. 889	137
1935	Wintersteen v. National Cooperage & Woodenware Co.· Dissent	197 N.E. 578	133
1937	People Ex Rel. Chicago Bar Ass'n v. Goodman	8 N.E.2d 941	105
1933	Gebhardt v. Village of Lagrange Park· Dissent	188 N.E. 372	87
1934	Thomas v. Buchanan	192 N.E. 215	72
1935	The People v. Herbert	196 N.E. 821	60
1937	Levy v. Broadway-Carmen Building Corp.· Dissent	8 N.E.2d 671	57
1934	Curry v. Cotton	191 N.E. 307	55
1936	Punke v. Village of Elliott	5 N.E.2d 389	48
1935	The People v. Throop	194 N.E. 553	45
1934	The People v. Deal	192 N.E. 649	44
1936	Ervin v. Industrial Commission	4 N.E.2d 22	43
1936	Byerly v. Byerly	2 N.E.2d 898	42
1935	Weininger v. Metropolitan Fire Insurance	195 N.E. 420	42
1933	Pollard v. Broadway Central Hotel Corp.	187 N.E. 487	42

Showing the 15 most-cited of 199 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 Lott R. Herrick on?: Lott R. Herrick was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court.

Sources

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4 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).