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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Illinois Supreme Court / Joined 1969 / Served to 1970

Marvin F. Burt

Justice, Illinois Supreme Court

Marvin F. Burt was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1969. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1905–1983
Tenure: 1969–1970 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1969	Illinois Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Burt authored 50 published opinions for the court (1969–1970). Most cited: Certain Taxpayers v. Sheahen (113 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. 39 of these were attributed to Burt 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
1970	Certain Taxpayers v. Sheahen	256 N.E.2d 758	113
1970	The People v. Johnson†	256 N.E.2d 343	112
1970	Kazubowski v. Kazubowski	259 N.E.2d 282	105
1970	The PEOPLE v. Morehead†	259 N.E.2d 8	86
1970	The PEOPLE v. Branion†	265 N.E.2d 1	76
1970	The People v. Nowak†	258 N.E.2d 313	75
1970	Paepcke v. Public Building Commission	263 N.E.2d 11	73
1970	Crafton v. Lester B. Knight & Associates, Inc.	263 N.E.2d 817	65
1970	The PEOPLE v. French†	262 N.E.2d 901	55
1970	The PEOPLE v. Palmer†	265 N.E.2d 627	50
1969	The People v. Harper†	253 N.E.2d 451	45
1970	People Ex Rel. Myers v. Briggs†	263 N.E.2d 109	37
1970	The People v. Bliss†	255 N.E.2d 405	37
1970	The PEOPLE v. Watkins†	263 N.E.2d 115	34
1970	The People v. Ikerd†	265 N.E.2d 120	33

Showing the 15 most-cited of 50 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 Marvin F. Burt on?: Marvin F. Burt was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court.

Sources

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1 year 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).