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

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

Missouri Court of Appeals / Joined 2006 / Active

Daniel E. Scott

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

Daniel E. Scott is a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, serving since 2006. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2006 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2006	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–
2006	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Scott authored 315 published opinions for the court (2006–2020), plus 6 dissents and 35 concurrences. Most cited: JOANNE JONES, QUINCY DWAYNE JONES, CHRIS JONES, and ANTHONY JONES v. UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY (43 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. 286 of these were attributed to Scott 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
2016	JOANNE JONES, QUINCY DWAYNE JONES, CHRIS JONES, and ANTHONY JONES v. UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY†	508 S.W.3d 159	43
2016	DAKOTA J. LACKEY v. IBERIA R-V SCHOOL DISTRICT, and JASON MORRIS	487 S.W.3d 57	39
2017	Nichols v. Belleview R-III School District· Concurrence†	528 S.W.3d 918	35
2009	Major v. McCallister†	302 S.W.3d 227	35
2014	CARL E. SMITH and MARGARITA SMITH v. GREAT AMERICAN ASSURANCE COMPANY, GREGORY HERKERT, and THE STOLAR PARTERSHIP, LLP	436 S.W.3d 700	34
2012	Jordan v. USF Holland Motor Freight, Inc.†	383 S.W.3d 93	31
2006	Maune Ex Rel. Maune v. City of Rolla†	203 S.W.3d 802	25
2011	Proffer v. Federal Mogul Corp.†	341 S.W.3d 184	21
2008	State v. Foster†	244 S.W.3d 800	20
2010	State v. Jennings†	322 S.W.3d 598	19
2009	State v. Smith†	293 S.W.3d 149	19
2019	STATE OF MISSOURI v. WADE A. STUCKLEY	573 S.W.3d 766	18
2017	Pemiscot County Port Authority v. Rail Switching Services, Inc.†	523 S.W.3d 530	18
2014	Executive Board v. Windermere Baptist Conference Center, Inc.· Concurrence†	430 S.W.3d 274	18
2007	State v. Norman†	243 S.W.3d 466	18

Showing the 15 most-cited of 356 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 Missouri Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court is Daniel E. Scott on?: Daniel E. Scott is a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals.

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20 years on the Missouri Court of Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).