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 1986 / Served to 2001

Robert Crist

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

Robert Crist was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1986. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1986–2001 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1986	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Crist authored 988 published opinions for the court (1978–2003), plus 4 dissents. Most cited: Collet v. American National Stores, Inc. (62 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. 752 of these were attributed to Crist 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
1986	Collet v. American National Stores, Inc.	708 S.W.2d 273	62
1978	Gateway Aviation, Inc. v. Cessna Aircraft Co.	577 S.W.2d 860	53
1983	State v. Young	661 S.W.2d 637	41
1983	Delf v. Cartwright	651 S.W.2d 622	40
2000	State v. Weddle	18 S.W.3d 389	33
1986	Honey v. Barnes Hospital	708 S.W.2d 686	32
1984	Marriage of Smith v. Smith	682 S.W.2d 834	32
1992	Matter of Estate of Potashnick	841 S.W.2d 714	29
1993	Garden View Care Center, Inc. v. Labor & Industrial Relations Commission	848 S.W.2d 603	28
1992	State v. Riddle	843 S.W.2d 385	28
1990	State v. Vitale	801 S.W.2d 451	27
1982	McCoy v. Liberty Foundry Co.	635 S.W.2d 60	27
1990	Carron v. Ste. Genevieve School District	800 S.W.2d 64	26
1983	State v. Holt	660 S.W.2d 735	26
1981	State v. Bienkowski	624 S.W.2d 107	26

Showing the 15 most-cited of 992 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 Crist on?: Robert Crist 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).