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Illinois Supreme Court / Joined 1933 / Served to 1942

Paul Farthing

Justice, Illinois Supreme Court

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

Lived: 1887–1976
Tenure: 1933–1942 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1933	Illinois Supreme Court	–	–

Education

McKendree University

Judicial Record

In our data, Farthing authored 359 published opinions for the court (1933–1942), plus 37 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co. v. Slattery (103 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. 8 of these were attributed to Farthing 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
1939	Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co. v. Slattery· Concurrence	25 N.E.2d 482	103
1934	Streeter v. Humrichouse	191 N.E. 684	78
1939	Krause v. Peoria Housing Authority	19 N.E.2d 193	71
1935	Minnis v. Friend	196 N.E. 191	70
1938	Blakeslee's Storage Warehouses, Inc. v. City of Chicago· Dissent	17 N.E.2d 1	67
1937	Levy v. Broadway-Carmen Building Corp.	8 N.E.2d 671	57
1939	Diversey Liquidating Corp. v. Neunkirchen	19 N.E.2d 363	56
1940	Nonnast v. Northern Trust Co.	29 N.E.2d 251	55
1941	Mahon v. Nudelman· Dissent	36 N.E.2d 550	47
1936	People v. Young Men's Christian Ass'n	6 N.E.2d 166	45
1939	Puttkammer v. Industrial Commission	21 N.E.2d 575	43
1935	Parks v. Libby-Owens-Ford Glass Co.	195 N.E. 616	43
1942	Kavanaugh v. Parret· Dissent	40 N.E.2d 500	42
1940	The People v. Biella	28 N.E.2d 111	42
1935	Berman v. Board of Education· Concurrence	196 N.E. 464	42

Showing the 15 most-cited of 409 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 Paul Farthing on?: Paul Farthing was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court.

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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).