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 1936 / Served to 1970

Floyd L. Sperry Sr.

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

Floyd L. Sperry Sr. was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1936. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1895–1981
Tenure: 1936–1970 · 34 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1936	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Sperry authored 429 published opinions for the court (1936–1970), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: Paxton v. Paxton (32 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. 280 of these were attributed to Sperry 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
1958	Paxton v. Paxton· Concurrence†	319 S.W.2d 280	32
1942	Brollier v. Van Alstine	163 S.W.2d 109	32
1959	Minich v. M. F. A. Mutual Insurance Co.†	325 S.W.2d 56	28
1937	United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Fidelity National Bank & Trust Co.	109 S.W.2d 47	28
1956	Ballew v. Ballew†	288 S.W.2d 24	22
1941	Brown v. Alton R.R. Co. and Slatter	151 S.W.2d 727	22
1967	Noland v. Farmers Insurance Exchange†	413 S.W.2d 530	21
1958	State Ex Rel. Burns v. Stanton†	311 S.W.2d 137	21
1940	Baird v. National Health Foundation	144 S.W.2d 850	21
1968	Jacobson v. Broadway Motors, Inc.†	430 S.W.2d 602	20
1948	McGuire v. Hutchison	210 S.W.2d 521	19
1948	Krall v. Light	210 S.W.2d 739	19
1942	Hoover v. National Casualty Co.	162 S.W.2d 363	19
1938	Porter v. Johnson	115 S.W.2d 529	19
1937	Home Insurance Co. of New York v. Savage	103 S.W.2d 900	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 430 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 was Floyd L. Sperry Sr. on?: Floyd L. Sperry Sr. was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals.

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34 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).