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 1940 / Served to 1960

Nick Cave

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

Nick Cave was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1940. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1940–1960 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1940	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Cave authored 243 published opinions for the court (1940–1973), plus 2 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Noll v. Noll (40 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. 61 of these were attributed to Cave 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
1956	Noll v. Noll	286 S.W.2d 58	40
1955	State Ex Rel. Horn v. Randall	275 S.W.2d 758	36
1957	Gingell v. Walters Contracting Corporation	303 S.W.2d 683	29
1959	Duncan v. Townsend	325 S.W.2d 67	26
1959	Thompson Ex Rel. Thompson v. Paseo Manor South, Inc.	331 S.W.2d 1	24
1956	City of Jefferson v. Capital City Oil Company	286 S.W.2d 65	24
1942	Blackwell v. Laird and Laird	163 S.W.2d 91	20
1946	Mahan v. Mahan	192 S.W.2d 626	19
1945	Prudential Insurance Co. of America v. Goldsmith	192 S.W.2d 1	19
1959	Heil v. Rogers	329 S.W.2d 388	18
1956	Beaty v. N. W. Electric Power Cooperative, Inc.	296 S.W.2d 921	18
1955	Kansas City v. Travelers Insurance Company	284 S.W.2d 874	18
1954	Prudot v. Stevens	266 S.W.2d 756	18
1954	Baird v. Ellsworth Realty Co.	265 S.W.2d 770	18
1946	Schnider v. M. E. H. Realty Investment Co.	193 S.W.2d 69	18

Showing the 15 most-cited of 248 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 Nick Cave on?: Nick Cave was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals.

Sources

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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).