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

Supreme Court of Missouri / Joined 1943 / Served to 1967

Laurance M. Hyde

Justice, Supreme Court of Missouri

Laurance M. Hyde was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri, who joined the court in 1943. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1892 · age 134
Tenure: 1943–1967 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1943	Supreme Court of Missouri	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hyde authored 716 published opinions for the court (1931–1967), plus 25 dissents and 34 concurrences. Most cited: Wood v. Wagner Electric Corporation (209 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. 161 of these were attributed to Hyde 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
1946	Wood v. Wagner Electric Corporation	197 S.W.2d 647	209
1933	Cummins v. Kansas City Public Service Co.	66 S.W.2d 920	131
1953	Hooper Ex Rel. Hooper v. Conrad· Concurrence†	260 S.W.2d 496	127
1934	Harke v. Haase	75 S.W.2d 1001	120
1949	City of St. Louis v. Butler Co.· Dissent	219 S.W.2d 372	112
1937	Smithers v. Barker	111 S.W.2d 47	111
1933	Kimmie v. Terminal Railroad Assn.	66 S.W.2d 561	111
1947	City of Springfield v. Clouse	206 S.W.2d 539	109
1952	Michler v. Krey Packing Co.	253 S.W.2d 136	108
1942	Barber v. Time, Inc.	159 S.W.2d 291	100
1954	Ambrose v. M. F. A. Co-Operative Ass'n of St. Elizabeth· Concurrence†	266 S.W.2d 647	93
1942	Jones v. Central States Oil Co.	164 S.W.2d 914	86
1937	Castorina v. Herrmann	104 S.W.2d 297	86
1959	McDonnell Aircraft Corp. v. Hartman-Hanks-Walsh Painting Co.	323 S.W.2d 788	84
1964	Edgar v. Fitzpatrick	377 S.W.2d 314	81

Showing the 15 most-cited of 776 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 Laurance M. Hyde on?: Laurance M. Hyde 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).