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Supreme Court of Missouri / Joined 1933 / Served to 1964

Charles A. Leedy Jr.

Justice, Supreme Court of Missouri

Charles A. Leedy Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri, who joined the court in 1933. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1895 · age 131
Tenure: 1933–1964 · 31 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1933	Supreme Court of Missouri	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Leedy authored 294 published opinions for the court (1933–1964), plus 11 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Reese (285 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. 72 of these were attributed to Leedy 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
1954	State v. Reese	274 S.W.2d 304	285
1947	State v. Tiedt	206 S.W.2d 524	111
1947	In Re Claim of Dependents of Seabaugh v. Garver Lumber Manufacturing Co.	200 S.W.2d 55	109
1950	State v. City of North Kansas City· Concurrence†	228 S.W.2d 762	85
1948	Belding v. St. Louis Public Service Co.	215 S.W.2d 506	68
1957	State v. Amsden	299 S.W.2d 498	64
1951	State v. Hinojosa	242 S.W.2d 1	58
1957	State v. Zammar	305 S.W.2d 441	54
1951	Wilcox v. Coons	241 S.W.2d 907	48
1938	State Ex Inf. McKittrick v. Wymore· Concurrence	119 S.W.2d 941	48
1961	Crouch v. Tourtelot· Dissent†	350 S.W.2d 799	46
1947	State Ex Rel. Randolph County v. Walden· Dissent	206 S.W.2d 979	43
1953	Hughes v. Aetna Ins. Co.	261 S.W.2d 942	42
1951	State v. McQuinn	235 S.W.2d 396	42
1949	Tatum v. Gulf, Mobile Ohio Railroad Co.	223 S.W.2d 418	41

Showing the 15 most-cited of 314 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 A. Leedy Jr. on?: Charles A. Leedy Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri.

Sources

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31 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).