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

Supreme Court of Missouri / Joined 1956 / Served to 1970

Clem F. Storckman

Justice, Supreme Court of Missouri

Clem F. Storckman was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri, who joined the court in 1956. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1899–1970
Tenure: 1956–1970 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1956	Supreme Court of Missouri	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Storckman authored 258 published opinions for the court (1955–1970), plus 33 dissents and 20 concurrences. Most cited: Kennedy v. Dixon (185 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. 84 of these were attributed to Storckman 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
1969	Kennedy v. Dixon· Dissent†	439 S.W.2d 173	185
1967	Brown v. St. Louis Public Service Company· Concurrence†	421 S.W.2d 255	136
1969	State v. Cobb	444 S.W.2d 408	130
1969	Greer v. Zurich Insurance Company	441 S.W.2d 15	121
1957	State v. Moore	303 S.W.2d 60	85
1961	State v. Watson	350 S.W.2d 763	81
1968	State v. Umfrees	433 S.W.2d 284	77
1964	Cooper Ex Rel. Cooper v. Finke	376 S.W.2d 225	74
1955	Rathjen v. Reorganized School District R-II	284 S.W.2d 516	73
1961	State v. Cox	352 S.W.2d 665	67
1960	Corp. v. Joplin Cement Company	337 S.W.2d 252	65
1958	State v. Harris	313 S.W.2d 664	64
1959	Brawner v. Brawner	327 S.W.2d 808	63
1958	State Ex Rel. Leggett v. Jensen· Dissent†	318 S.W.2d 353	63
1964	Brugioni v. Maryland Casualty Company	382 S.W.2d 707	62

Showing the 15 most-cited of 311 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 Clem F. Storckman on?: Clem F. Storckman was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri.

Sources

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14 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).