How do judges of the Supreme Court of Missouri reach the bench?

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

Supreme Court of Missouri / Joined 1967 / Served to 1982

Robert Eldridge Seiler

Justice, Supreme Court of Missouri

Robert Eldridge Seiler was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri, who joined the court in 1967. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1912 · age 114
Tenure: 1967–1982 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1967	Supreme Court of Missouri	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Seiler authored 262 published opinions for the court (1967–1985), plus 144 dissents and 98 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Newlon (237 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. 351 of these were attributed to Seiler 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
1982	State v. Newlon· Concurrence†	627 S.W.2d 606	237
1978	Fields v. State	572 S.W.2d 477	232
1979	Seales v. State· Concurrence†	580 S.W.2d 733	230
1977	Jones v. State Highway Commission	557 S.W.2d 225	204
1979	State v. Higgins· Dissent†	592 S.W.2d 151	191
1974	Smith v. State· Dissent†	513 S.W.2d 407	175
1978	Missouri Pacific Railroad v. Whitehead & Kales Co.	566 S.W.2d 466	170
1977	State v. Treadway· Dissent†	558 S.W.2d 646	170
1981	State v. Harris· Dissent†	620 S.W.2d 349	167
1982	State v. Shaw· Dissent†	636 S.W.2d 667	165
1982	State v. Bolder· Dissent†	635 S.W.2d 673	160
1975	State v. Wiley· Dissent†	522 S.W.2d 281	154
1981	State v. Mercer· Dissent†	618 S.W.2d 1	151
1980	Harrison v. MFA Mutual Insurance Co.	607 S.W.2d 137	149
1976	Scheibel v. Hillis	531 S.W.2d 285	148

Showing the 15 most-cited of 504 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 Robert Eldridge Seiler on?: Robert Eldridge Seiler was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri.

Sources

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15 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).