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 1987 / Served to 1998

Stanley Grimm

Judge, Missouri Court of Appeals

Stanley Grimm was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1987. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1987–1998 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1987	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Grimm authored 344 published opinions for the court (1987–1998), plus 15 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Rice v. James (34 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. 272 of these were attributed to Grimm 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
1992	Rice v. James· Dissent†	844 S.W.2d 64	34
1990	Marriage of W.E.F. v. C.J.F.†	793 S.W.2d 446	30
1993	Bachmann v. Welby	860 S.W.2d 31	29
1994	Stanton v. Abbey	874 S.W.2d 493	28
1989	In Re Estate of Caldwell	766 S.W.2d 464	28
1998	Linton v. Missouri Highway & Transportation Commission· Dissent†	980 S.W.2d 4	26
1995	Resnik v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Missouri· Concurrence†	912 S.W.2d 567	26
1993	Lay v. St. Louis Helicopter Airways, Inc.	869 S.W.2d 173	26
1997	Chambers v. Easter Fence Co., Inc.	943 S.W.2d 863	24
1989	State v. Hammett	784 S.W.2d 293	24
1992	Meyer v. Meyer	842 S.W.2d 184	22
1988	Southern Cross Lumber & Millwork Co. v. Becker	761 S.W.2d 269	22
1988	Greco v. Robinson	747 S.W.2d 730	22
1997	Moody v. Hicks	956 S.W.2d 398	21
1991	American Family Mutual Insurance Co. v. Turner	824 S.W.2d 19	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 367 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 Stanley Grimm on?: Stanley Grimm was a Judge of the Missouri Court of Appeals.

Sources

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11 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).