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Supreme Court of Missouri / Joined 1939 / Served to 1950

Albert Montgomery Clark

Justice, Supreme Court of Missouri

Albert Montgomery Clark was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri, who joined the court in 1939. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1879–1950
Tenure: 1939–1950 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1939	Supreme Court of Missouri	–	–

Education

Vanderbilt University

Judicial Record

In our data, Clark authored 187 published opinions for the court (1939–1950), plus 4 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: City of St. Louis v. Butler Co. (112 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. 7 of these were attributed to Clark 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
1949	City of St. Louis v. Butler Co.· Dissent	219 S.W.2d 372	112
1949	Maybach v. Falstaff Brewing Corp.	222 S.W.2d 87	63
1945	Wamhoff v. Wagner Electric Corp.	190 S.W.2d 915	61
1939	Laret Investment Co. v. Dickmann	134 S.W.2d 65	59
1948	General Exchange Ins. Corp. v. Young	212 S.W.2d 396	51
1941	Todd v. Curators of Mo. University	147 S.W.2d 1063	44
1949	Fair Mercantile Co. v. Union-May-Stern Co.	221 S.W.2d 751	43
1947	State Ex Rel. Randolph County v. Walden· Concurrence	206 S.W.2d 979	43
1944	State Ex Rel. Bier v. Bigger	178 S.W.2d 347	41
1946	State v. Oliver	195 S.W.2d 484	38
1941	State Ex Rel. Hussmann-Ligonier Co. v. Hughes	153 S.W.2d 40	38
1949	Mershon v. Missouri Public Service Corp.	221 S.W.2d 165	36
1944	Coleman v. Kansas City	182 S.W.2d 74	35
1947	State v. Wynne	204 S.W.2d 927	33
1948	City of St. Louis v. Friedman	216 S.W.2d 475	32

Showing the 15 most-cited of 194 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 Supreme Court of Missouri reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Albert Montgomery Clark on?: Albert Montgomery Clark was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri.

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11 years on the Supreme Court of Missouri. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).