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 1995 / Served to 2012

Robert Barney

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

Robert Barney was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1995–2012 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Barney authored 567 published opinions for the court (1996–2012), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: State v. Deckard (50 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. 127 of these were attributed to Barney 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
2000	State v. Deckard	18 S.W.3d 495	50
2000	In re of S.L.N.†	8 S.W.3d 916	38
2006	State v. Smith	185 S.W.3d 747	37
2004	State v. Collins	150 S.W.3d 340	37
1996	Silver Dollar City, Inc. v. Kitsmiller Construction Co.	931 S.W.2d 909	34
2003	Pavia v. Smitty's Supermarket	118 S.W.3d 228	33
2004	In Re Marriage of Michel	142 S.W.3d 912	32
2004	State v. Mann	129 S.W.3d 462	32
1997	State v. Perry	954 S.W.2d 554	32
1996	State v. Sullivan	935 S.W.2d 747	32
2009	State v. Haslett	283 S.W.3d 769	29
2005	Jerry Bennett Masonry, Inc. v. Crossland Const. Co., Inc.	171 S.W.3d 81	29
2003	Williams v. Daus	114 S.W.3d 351	29
2005	State v. Ernst	164 S.W.3d 70	28
2001	Blackburn v. Habitat Development Co.	57 S.W.3d 378	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 568 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 Robert Barney on?: Robert Barney was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals.

Sources

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16 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).