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

Supreme Court of Missouri / Joined 1931 / Served to 1955

George Robb Ellison

Justice, Supreme Court of Missouri

George Robb Ellison was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri, who joined the court in 1931. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1931–1955 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1931	Supreme Court of Missouri	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Ellison authored 415 published opinions for the court (1927–1954), plus 27 dissents and 21 concurrences. Most cited: McCloskey Ex Rel. McCloskey v. Koplar (212 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. 33 of these were attributed to Ellison 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
1932	McCloskey Ex Rel. McCloskey v. Koplar	46 S.W.2d 557	212
1933	Cummins v. Kansas City Public Service Co.· Concurrence	66 S.W.2d 920	131
1927	Wendorff v. Missouri State Life Insurance	1 S.W.2d 99	124
1941	Guthrie v. City of St. Charles	152 S.W.2d 91	116
1949	City of St. Louis v. Butler Co.	219 S.W.2d 372	112
1928	Nettleton Bank v. Estate of McGauhey	2 S.W.2d 771	110
1936	State v. Gregory	96 S.W.2d 47	99
1937	Clark v. Austin· Concurrence	101 S.W.2d 977	93
1939	Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Jones	130 S.W.2d 945	85
1938	Buehler v. Festus Mercantile Co.	119 S.W.2d 961	84
1936	State v. Hefflin	89 S.W.2d 938	81
1937	State Ex Rel. Kansas City Southern Railway Co. v. Shain	105 S.W.2d 915	79
1937	Perkins v. Terminal Railroad Assn.· Dissent	102 S.W.2d 915	79
1935	Pulitzer v. Chapman	85 S.W.2d 400	79
1933	State v. Shawley	67 S.W.2d 74	79

Showing the 15 most-cited of 463 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 George Robb Ellison on?: George Robb Ellison was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri.

Sources

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24 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).