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Illinois Supreme Court / Joined 1992 / Served to 2002

Moses W. Harrison II

Justice, Illinois Supreme Court

Moses W. Harrison II was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1992. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1932–2013
Tenure: 1992–2002 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1992	Illinois Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Colorado College

Judicial Record

In our data, Harrison authored 141 published opinions for the court (1993–2002), plus 132 dissents and 75 concurrences. Most cited: Connick v. Suzuki Motor Co., Ltd. (836 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. 218 of these were attributed to Harrison 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
1996	Connick v. Suzuki Motor Co., Ltd.· Concurrence†	675 N.E.2d 584	836
2002	People v. Pitsonbarger· Dissent†	793 N.E.2d 609	692
1998	City of Belvidere v. Illinois State Labor Relations Board· Dissent†	692 N.E.2d 295	682
2000	People v. Hall· Concurrence†	743 N.E.2d 521	566
1998	People v. Kliner· Concurrence†	705 N.E.2d 850	564
2001	People v. Caffey· Dissent†	792 N.E.2d 1163	527
2000	Michigan Avenue National Bank v. County of Cook· Dissent†	732 N.E.2d 528	492
1999	People v. Evans· Concurrence†	186 Ill. 2d 83	421
1998	People v. Bull· Concurrence†	705 N.E.2d 824	417
2000	People v. Williams· Concurrence†	739 N.E.2d 455	413
2000	People v. Enis· Concurrence†	743 N.E.2d 1	377
2000	People v. Easley· Concurrence†	192 Ill. 2d 307	356
1996	Barnett v. Zion Park District· Dissent†	665 N.E.2d 808	337
2000	People v. Simms· Dissent†	736 N.E.2d 1092	336
1995	People v. Lewis· Dissent†	651 N.E.2d 72	322

Showing the 15 most-cited of 348 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 Moses W. Harrison II on?: Moses W. Harrison II was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court.

Sources

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10 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).