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

Supreme Court of Missouri / Joined 1998 / Served to 2011

Michael A. Wolff

Justice, Supreme Court of Missouri

Michael A. Wolff was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri, who joined the court in 1998. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1945 · age 81
Tenure: 1998–2011 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1998	Supreme Court of Missouri	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Wolff authored 139 published opinions for the court (1998–2011), plus 26 dissents and 39 concurrences. Most cited: J.C.W. Ex Rel. Webb v. Wyciskalla (396 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. 79 of these were attributed to Wolff 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
2009	J.C.W. Ex Rel. Webb v. Wyciskalla	275 S.W.3d 249	396
2002	Hinnah v. Director of Revenue	77 S.W.3d 616	164
2000	Overcast v. Billings Mutual Insurance Co.	11 S.W.3d 62	135
2003	Barnett v. State	103 S.W.3d 765	123
2000	Giddens v. Kansas City Southern Railway Co.· Concurrence†	29 S.W.3d 813	119
2006	State v. Baxter	204 S.W.3d 650	113
2006	Powel v. Chaminade College Preparatory, Inc.· Concurrence†	197 S.W.3d 576	113
1998	Spradlin v. City of Fulton· Concurrence†	982 S.W.2d 255	108
2002	Chesterfield Village, Inc. v. City of Chesterfield	64 S.W.3d 315	107
2011	S.M. v. E.M.B.R.· Concurrence†	332 S.W.3d 793	105
2000	State v. Wolfe· Dissent†	13 S.W.3d 248	105
2008	State v. Freeman· Concurrence†	269 S.W.3d 422	104
2005	State v. Pike	162 S.W.3d 464	104
2000	State v. Johns· Dissent†	34 S.W.3d 93	104
2010	Klotz v. St. Anthony's Medical Center· Concurrence†	311 S.W.3d 752	102

Showing the 15 most-cited of 204 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 Michael A. Wolff on?: Michael A. Wolff 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).