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

Supreme Court of Missouri / Joined 1955 / Served to 1968

Henry I. Eager

Justice, Supreme Court of Missouri

Henry I. Eager was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri, who joined the court in 1955. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1895 · age 131
Tenure: 1955–1968 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1955	Supreme Court of Missouri	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Eager authored 285 published opinions for the court (1955–1968), plus 19 dissents and 20 concurrences. Most cited: Allen v. St. Louis Public Service Company (117 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. 88 of these were attributed to Eager 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
1956	Allen v. St. Louis Public Service Company	285 S.W.2d 663	117
1968	Zipkin v. Freeman· Concurrence†	436 S.W.2d 753	110
1967	State v. Holbert	416 S.W.2d 129	108
1964	State v. Aubuchon	381 S.W.2d 807	104
1968	Warner v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Company	428 S.W.2d 596	93
1958	City of St. Joseph v. Hankinson	312 S.W.2d 4	89
1963	Novak v. Kansas City Transit, Inc.· Dissent†	365 S.W.2d 539	87
1956	State v. Johnson	286 S.W.2d 787	77
1956	State Ex Rel. Boll v. Weinstein	295 S.W.2d 62	73
1955	Rathjen v. Reorganized School District R-II· Dissent†	284 S.W.2d 516	73
1963	State v. Ramsey	368 S.W.2d 413	70
1959	Robbins v. Robbins	328 S.W.2d 552	68
1965	Rock Springs Realty, Inc. v. Waid	392 S.W.2d 270	67
1956	Dickerson v. St. Louis Public Service Company	286 S.W.2d 820	66
1964	United Air Lines, Inc. v. State Tax Commission	377 S.W.2d 444	64

Showing the 15 most-cited of 324 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 Henry I. Eager on?: Henry I. Eager was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri.

Sources

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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).