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 1997 / Served to 2000

Kent E. Karohl

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

Kent E. Karohl was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1997. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1997–2000 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1997	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Karohl authored 398 published opinions for the court (1983–2000), plus 6 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Gaines v. Monsanto Co. (56 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. 122 of these were attributed to Karohl 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
1983	Gaines v. Monsanto Co.	655 S.W.2d 568	56
1985	State Ex Rel. Lebeau v. Kelly	697 S.W.2d 312	49
1983	Zahn v. Associated Dry Goods Corp.	655 S.W.2d 769	47
1997	Rogers v. Director of Revenue	947 S.W.2d 475	43
1996	State v. Shinn	921 S.W.2d 70	42
1996	Reis v. Peabody Coal Co.	935 S.W.2d 625	40
1995	Centermark Properties, Inc. v. Home Indemnity Co.	897 S.W.2d 98	38
1984	Community Title Co. v. Roosevelt Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n	670 S.W.2d 895	38
1997	Jos. A. Bank Clothiers, Inc. v. Brodsky	950 S.W.2d 297	37
1993	Hoskin v. State	863 S.W.2d 637	37
1998	Trauschazar v. Trausch†	983 S.W.2d 199	34
1998	Loudermilk v. State	973 S.W.2d 551	33
1983	State v. Isom	660 S.W.2d 739	33
1983	State v. Chunn	657 S.W.2d 292	33
1999	Ritter v. BJC Barnes Jewish Christian Health Systems	987 S.W.2d 377	32

Showing the 15 most-cited of 405 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 Kent E. Karohl on?: Kent E. Karohl was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals.

Sources

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3 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).