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 1983 / Served to 1996

George Flanigan

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

George Flanigan was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1983. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1983–1996 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1983	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Flanigan authored 509 published opinions for the court (1974–1996), plus 8 dissents and 19 concurrences. Most cited: Marriage of Cain v. Cain (64 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. 338 of these were attributed to Flanigan 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
1976	Marriage of Cain v. Cain	536 S.W.2d 866	64
1986	In the Interest of S.A.M.	703 S.W.2d 603	46
1983	State v. Hohensee	650 S.W.2d 268	43
1991	In Re Marriage of Gourley	811 S.W.2d 13	42
1990	Barkley v. Carter County State Bank	791 S.W.2d 906	39
1976	Barber v. M. F. A. Milling Co.	536 S.W.2d 208	39
1975	Fulton v. Fulton	528 S.W.2d 146	37
1990	Eagleburger v. Emerson Electric Co.· Dissent†	794 S.W.2d 210	36
1990	State v. Clements	789 S.W.2d 101	34
1988	Presley v. State	750 S.W.2d 602	33
1977	Halford v. Yandell	558 S.W.2d 400	32
1975	Household Finance Company, Inc. v. Watson	522 S.W.2d 111	32
1992	State v. Childress	828 S.W.2d 935	31
1989	Eyberg v. Shah	773 S.W.2d 887	31
1985	State Ex Rel. Stufflebam v. Appelquist	694 S.W.2d 882	30

Showing the 15 most-cited of 536 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 George Flanigan on?: George Flanigan was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals.

Sources

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13 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).