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

Supreme Court of Missouri / Joined 1982 / Served to 1992

Charles Blakey Blackmar

Justice, Supreme Court of Missouri

Charles Blakey Blackmar was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri, who joined the court in 1982. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1922–2007
Tenure: 1982–1992 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1982	Supreme Court of Missouri	–	–

Education

Princeton University

Judicial Record

In our data, Blackmar authored 167 published opinions for the court (1983–2005), plus 85 dissents and 152 concurrences. Most cited: Sanders v. State (631 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. 289 of these were attributed to Blackmar 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
1987	Sanders v. State· Concurrence†	738 S.W.2d 856	631
1987	State v. Antwine· Concurrence†	743 S.W.2d 51	533
1985	Hoover's Dairy, Inc. v. Mid-America Dairymen, Inc./Special Products, Inc.· Concurrence†	700 S.W.2d 426	246
1991	State v. Feltrop· Concurrence†	803 S.W.2d 1	245
1992	State v. Blankenship· Concurrence†	830 S.W.2d 1	229
1990	State v. McMillin· Concurrence†	783 S.W.2d 82	215
1987	State v. Mallett· Dissent†	732 S.W.2d 527	195
1991	State v. Twenter· Concurrence†	818 S.W.2d 628	189
1988	State v. Griffin· Concurrence†	756 S.W.2d 475	187
1991	Wilson v. State· Dissent†	813 S.W.2d 833	184
1988	State v. Clemmons· Concurrence†	753 S.W.2d 901	177
1984	Hoffmann v. Hoffmann· Concurrence†	676 S.W.2d 817	177
1983	State v. McDonald· Concurrence†	661 S.W.2d 497	175
1988	State v. Murray· Concurrence†	744 S.W.2d 762	158
1988	Johnson v. McDonnell Douglas Corp.· Dissent†	745 S.W.2d 661	157

Showing the 15 most-cited of 404 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 Charles Blakey Blackmar on?: Charles Blakey Blackmar was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri.

Sources

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9 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).