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Supreme Court of Missouri / Joined 1933 / Served to 1955

Ernest Moss Tipton

Justice, Supreme Court of Missouri

Ernest Moss Tipton was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri, who joined the court in 1933. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1889 · age 137
Tenure: 1933–1955 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Tipton authored 354 published opinions for the court (1933–1955), plus 7 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Ambrose v. M. F. A. Co-Operative Ass'n of St. Elizabeth (93 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. 26 of these were attributed to Tipton 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	Ambrose v. M. F. A. Co-Operative Ass'n of St. Elizabeth	266 S.W.2d 647	93
1950	Zumwalt v. Utilities Insurance	228 S.W.2d 750	81
1937	Perkins v. Terminal Railroad Assn.	102 S.W.2d 915	79
1951	Cruce v. Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad	238 S.W.2d 674	65
1950	Janssens v. Thompson· Concurrence†	360 Mo. 351	61
1949	Central Surety & Insurance v. New Amsterdam Casualty Co.	222 S.W.2d 76	54
1934	St. Louis Union Trust Co. v. Hill	76 S.W.2d 685	49
1952	State v. Cuezze	249 S.W.2d 373	47
1940	Ex Parte Williams	139 S.W.2d 485	47
1937	Soukup v. Employers' Liability Assurance Corp.· Dissent	108 S.W.2d 86	47
1953	Cudney v. Midcontinent Airlines, Inc.· Concurrence†	254 S.W.2d 662	45
1942	State v. Collins	165 S.W.2d 647	45
1953	Oliver L. Taetz, Inc. v. Groff	253 S.W.2d 824	43
1946	Stokes v. Wabash Railroad Co.	197 S.W.2d 304	43
1935	Rutherford v. Tobin Quarries, Inc.	83 S.W.2d 918	42

Showing the 15 most-cited of 365 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 Ernest Moss Tipton on?: Ernest Moss Tipton was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri.

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22 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).