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Supreme Court of Missouri / Joined 1985 / Served to 1998

Edward D. Robertson Jr.

Justice, Supreme Court of Missouri

Edward D. Robertson Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri, who joined the court in 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1952 · age 74
Tenure: 1985–1998 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1985	Supreme Court of Missouri	–	–

Education

University of Missouri-Kansas City

Judicial Record

In our data, Robertson authored 180 published opinions for the court (1985–1998), plus 37 dissents and 41 concurrences. Most cited: ITT Commercial Finance Corp. v. Mid-America Marine Supply Corp. (2,373 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. 122 of these were attributed to Robertson 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
1993	ITT Commercial Finance Corp. v. Mid-America Marine Supply Corp.	854 S.W.2d 371	2,373
1993	State v. Grim· Dissent†	854 S.W.2d 403	551
1987	State v. Antwine	743 S.W.2d 51	533
1995	State v. Brown	902 S.W.2d 278	277
1993	State v. Bernard· Concurrence†	849 S.W.2d 10	262
1992	State v. Ervin	835 S.W.2d 905	246
1994	State v. Harris	870 S.W.2d 798	236
1991	Rodriguez v. General Accident Insurance Co. of America	808 S.W.2d 379	236
1995	State v. Storey· Concurrence†	901 S.W.2d 886	231
1993	State v. O'BRIEN	857 S.W.2d 212	231
1993	State v. Isa	850 S.W.2d 876	203
1997	State v. Roberts	948 S.W.2d 577	197
1994	Committee for Educational Equality v. State· Concurrence†	878 S.W.2d 446	197
1989	Burnett v. Griffith	769 S.W.2d 780	186
1987	State v. Lingar	726 S.W.2d 728	172

Showing the 15 most-cited of 258 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 Edward D. Robertson Jr. on?: Edward D. Robertson Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri.

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13 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).