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The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Supreme Court of Missouri / Joined 1979 / Served to 1991

Andrew Jackson Higgins

Justice, Supreme Court of Missouri

Andrew Jackson Higgins was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri, who joined the court in 1979. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1921–2011
Tenure: 1979–1991 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1979	Supreme Court of Missouri	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Higgins authored 208 published opinions for the court (1978–1991), plus 19 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Wood (236 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. 93 of these were attributed to Higgins 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
1980	State v. Wood	596 S.W.2d 394	236
1984	Zafft v. Eli Lilly & Co.	676 S.W.2d 241	197
1989	Marriage of T.B.G. v. C.A.G.†	772 S.W.2d 653	187
1991	Wilson v. State	813 S.W.2d 833	184
1981	State v. Mercer	618 S.W.2d 1	151
1984	Fowler v. Park Corp.· Dissent†	673 S.W.2d 749	146
1990	State v. Milliorn· Concurrence†	794 S.W.2d 181	145
1979	State v. Murphy	592 S.W.2d 727	137
1982	State Ex Rel. Williams v. Marsh	626 S.W.2d 223	136
1982	Robin v. Blue Cross Hospital Service, Inc.	637 S.W.2d 695	126
1980	State v. Biddle· Dissent†	599 S.W.2d 182	125
1980	State v. Olds	603 S.W.2d 501	124
1984	State v. Bannister	680 S.W.2d 141	120
1984	Elmore v. Owens-Illinois, Inc.	673 S.W.2d 434	109
1986	Metro Auto Auction v. Director of Revenue	707 S.W.2d 397	107

Showing the 15 most-cited of 238 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 Andrew Jackson Higgins on?: Andrew Jackson Higgins was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri.

Sources

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12 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).