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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Illinois Supreme Court / Joined 1930 / Served to 1939

Warren H. Orr

Justice, Illinois Supreme Court

Warren H. Orr was a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1930. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1888–1962
Tenure: 1930–1939 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1930	Illinois Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Orr authored 369 published opinions for the court (1930–1939), plus 21 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: People Ex Rel. Illinois State Bar Ass'n v. Peoples Stock Yards State Bank (147 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 Orr 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
1931	People Ex Rel. Illinois State Bar Ass'n v. Peoples Stock Yards State Bank	176 N.E. 901	147
1937	People Ex Rel. Chicago Bar Ass'n v. Goodman· Dissent	8 N.E.2d 941	105
1931	The People v. Popescue	177 N.E. 739	91
1930	Bollenbach v. Bloomenthal	173 N.E. 670	60
1937	Levy v. Broadway-Carmen Building Corp.· Dissent	8 N.E.2d 671	57
1939	Zimek v. Illinois National Casualty Co.	19 N.E.2d 620	56
1930	Tribune Co. v. Thompson	174 N.E. 561	54
1932	The People v. City of Chicago	182 N.E. 419	50
1934	The People v. Belcastro	190 N.E. 301	47
1938	Evanston Best Co., Inc. v. Goodman	16 N.E.2d 131	44
1935	Berman v. Board of Education	196 N.E. 464	42
1934	The People v. Kazmierczyk	192 N.E. 657	42
1932	Graham v. O'Connor	182 N.E. 764	40
1934	Roe v. County of Cook	193 N.E. 472	39
1932	Bachrach v. Nelson	182 N.E. 909	39

Showing the 15 most-cited of 399 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 Warren H. Orr on?: Warren H. Orr 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).