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

Supreme Court of Missouri / Joined 1992 / Served to 2012

William Ray Price Jr.

Justice, Supreme Court of Missouri

William Ray Price Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri, who joined the court in 1992. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1952 · age 74
Tenure: 1992–2012 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1992	Supreme Court of Missouri	–	–

Education

University of Iowa

Judicial Record

In our data, Price authored 221 published opinions for the court (1992–2012), plus 40 dissents and 32 concurrences. Most cited: Nazeri v. Missouri Valley College (367 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. 106 of these were attributed to Price 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
1993	Nazeri v. Missouri Valley College	860 S.W.2d 303	367
2010	White v. Director of Revenue· Concurrence†	321 S.W.3d 298	363
1996	State v. Tokar	918 S.W.2d 753	285
1992	State v. Parker· Concurrence†	836 S.W.2d 930	259
1992	State v. Purlee	839 S.W.2d 584	237
2004	In the Interest of K.A.W.· Dissent†	133 S.W.3d 1	214
2012	Pearson v. Koster· Dissent†	367 S.W.3d 36	184
2012	Dorris v. State†	360 S.W.3d 260	175
1993	Martin v. City of Washington	848 S.W.2d 487	175
2006	State v. Johnson	207 S.W.3d 24	170
2001	State v. Whalen· Concurrence†	49 S.W.3d 181	168
2007	Todd Ex Rel. Todd v. Missouri United School Insurance Council	223 S.W.3d 156	165
2010	Renaissance Leasing, LLC v. Vermeer Manufacturing Co.	322 S.W.3d 112	164
2009	State v. Johnson	284 S.W.3d 561	156
2000	Lopez v. Three Rivers Electric Cooperative, Inc.· Dissent†	26 S.W.3d 151	155

Showing the 15 most-cited of 293 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 William Ray Price Jr. on?: William Ray Price Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri.

Sources

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20 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).