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 1990 / Served to 2007

Patricia Breckenridge

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

Patricia Breckenridge was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1990. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1990–2007 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1990	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–

Education

University of Missouri-Columbia
University of Missouri-Columbia

Judicial Record

In our data, Breckenridge authored 473 published opinions for the court (1991–2008), plus 3 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Business Men's Assurance Co. of America v. Graham (72 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. 411 of these were attributed to Breckenridge 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
1994	Business Men's Assurance Co. of America v. Graham	891 S.W.2d 438	72
2000	Wildflower Community Ass'n v. Rinderknecht†	25 S.W.3d 530	56
1996	Leone v. Leone†	917 S.W.2d 608	56
1996	MacKe Laundry Service Ltd. Partnership v. Jetz Service Co.†	931 S.W.2d 166	47
2004	Davis v. Cleary Building Corp.†	143 S.W.3d 659	44
1999	State v. Dodd	10 S.W.3d 546	44
1991	Juvenile Officer v. D.M.M.†	815 S.W.2d 97	42
2000	State v. West†	21 S.W.3d 59	41
1993	Rodgers v. Czamanske†	862 S.W.2d 453	41
2004	Foraker v. Foraker†	133 S.W.3d 84	40
2004	State v. Farris†	125 S.W.3d 382	40
1999	State v. Dawson†	985 S.W.2d 941	39
1999	Missouri Commission on Human Rights v. Red Dragon Restaurant, Inc.†	991 S.W.2d 161	38
2008	Ratcliff v. Sprint Missouri, Inc.	261 S.W.3d 534	37
1999	Williams v. Reed†	6 S.W.3d 916	36

Showing the 15 most-cited of 482 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 Patricia Breckenridge on?: Patricia Breckenridge was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals.

Sources

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17 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).