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Supreme Court of Missouri / Joined 1950 / Served to 1965

Sidna Poage Dalton

Justice, Supreme Court of Missouri

Sidna Poage Dalton was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri, who joined the court in 1950. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1892 · age 134
Tenure: 1950–1965 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1950	Supreme Court of Missouri	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Dalton authored 459 published opinions for the court (1939–1965), plus 14 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Delay Ex Rel. Delay v. Ward (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. 92 of these were attributed to Dalton 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
1953	Delay Ex Rel. Delay v. Ward	262 S.W.2d 628	117
1944	Schmidt v. Utilities Insurance Co.	182 S.W.2d 181	108
1940	Paisley v. Lucas	143 S.W.2d 262	99
1952	Casper v. Lee· Dissent†	245 S.W.2d 132	94
1950	Gardine v. Cottey	230 S.W.2d 731	84
1944	Haynes v. Unemployment Compensation Commission	183 S.W.2d 77	81
1946	Stephens v. Kansas City Gas Company	191 S.W.2d 601	76
1947	State v. Shilkett	204 S.W.2d 920	73
1940	Homan v. Employers Reinsurance Corp.	136 S.W.2d 289	71
1952	Thacker v. Massman Const. Co.	247 S.W.2d 623	68
1952	Flora Realty & Investment Co. v. City of Ladue	246 S.W.2d 771	67
1950	Bowman v. City of Kansas City	233 S.W.2d 26	65
1949	Yates v. Manchester	217 S.W.2d 541	64
1958	State v. Edwards· Concurrence†	317 S.W.2d 441	62
1956	Pizzo v. Pizzo	295 S.W.2d 377	62

Showing the 15 most-cited of 482 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 Sidna Poage Dalton on?: Sidna Poage Dalton 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).