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

Supreme Court of Missouri / Joined 1947 / Served to 1954

Roscoe P. Conkling

Justice, Supreme Court of Missouri

Roscoe P. Conkling was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri, who joined the court in 1947. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1889 · age 137
Tenure: 1947–1954 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1947	Supreme Court of Missouri	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Conkling authored 123 published opinions for the court (1947–1954), plus 10 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Albert J. Hoppe, Inc. v. St. Louis Public Service Co. (126 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. 22 of these were attributed to Conkling 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
1950	Albert J. Hoppe, Inc. v. St. Louis Public Service Co.	235 S.W.2d 347	126
1952	Vietmeier v. Voss	246 S.W.2d 785	108
1954	Ambrose v. M. F. A. Co-Operative Ass'n of St. Elizabeth· Concurrence†	266 S.W.2d 647	93
1950	State v. City of North Kansas City	228 S.W.2d 762	85
1950	Gardine v. Cottey· Concurrence†	230 S.W.2d 731	84
1949	Yeaman v. Storms	217 S.W.2d 495	82
1950	Commerce Trust Co. v. Watts	231 S.W.2d 817	75
1954	Collins v. Division of Welfare	270 S.W.2d 817	63
1953	State v. Kornegger	255 S.W.2d 765	63
1953	Laclede Gas Co. v. City of St. Louis	253 S.W.2d 832	62
1947	Wright v. Osborn	201 S.W.2d 935	62
1951	State v. Hawkins	240 S.W.2d 688	58
1949	State Ex Rel. Chilcutt v. Thatch	221 S.W.2d 172	56
1950	McCoy v. McCoy	227 S.W.2d 698	55
1948	State Ex Rel. Spears v. McCullen	210 S.W.2d 68	55

Showing the 15 most-cited of 138 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 Roscoe P. Conkling on?: Roscoe P. Conkling was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri.

Sources

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7 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).