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 1985 / Served to 2000

John Crow

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

John Crow was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1985–2000 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1985	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Crow authored 704 published opinions for the court (1983–2000), plus 6 dissents and 40 concurrences. Most cited: In Re Marriage of Short (39 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. 517 of these were attributed to Crow 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	In Re Marriage of Short	847 S.W.2d 158	39
1990	Eagleburger v. Emerson Electric Co.	794 S.W.2d 210	36
1987	Boggs v. State	742 S.W.2d 591	35
1983	Lohrmann v. Carter	657 S.W.2d 372	32
1983	State v. Abbott	654 S.W.2d 260	32
1983	Moreland v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.	662 S.W.2d 556	30
1996	Gage v. Morse· Concurrence†	933 S.W.2d 410	29
1995	National Avenue Building Co. v. Stewart	910 S.W.2d 334	29
1985	State Ex Rel. Missouri Highway & Transportation Commission v. Appelquist	698 S.W.2d 883	28
1985	State v. Garrette	699 S.W.2d 468	28
1992	In Re Marriage of Fry	827 S.W.2d 772	27
1988	In Re Marriage of Medlock	749 S.W.2d 437	27
1987	Wilhelmsen v. Peck	743 S.W.2d 88	27
1986	Snowden v. Gaynor	710 S.W.2d 481	27
1985	Smith v. Smith· Concurrence†	702 S.W.2d 505	27

Showing the 15 most-cited of 750 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 John Crow on?: John Crow was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals.

Sources

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15 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).