30 Missouri opinions name it 2 courts 1875–2025 4 in the last five years
The cases below were cited by Missouri courts in a sentence that names this issue. Sides come from how each citing opinion treated the case (Syfertize flag on that citation), so a case can appear on both: that is where the law is contested. A red or yellow chip is the case's own overall treatment.
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Steven D. Green v. State of Missourigreen2 sentences2025See id. 2020See Green, 494 S.W.3d at 527 (citing Mo. R. | 2 | 3 |
Cleveland v. Policy Management Systems Corp.green1 sentence2025Corp., 526 U.S. 795, 806 (1999))). 7 In the argument section of her brief, Snethen asserts the Board’s 2023 order “is unsupported by competent and substantial evidence upon the whole record[.]” This is a separate and distinct claim from the one raised in her point relied on—that the Board’s action was unauthorized by law. | 1 | 1 |
Kristin Nicole Stiers v. Director of Revenuegreen1 sentence2025Compare § 490.065.1 (setting forth one standard to govern in certain categories of cases), with § 490.065.2 (setting forth a distinct standard to govern in all other cases). “[T]he rules of evidence in effect at the time of trial govern.” Stiers v. Dir. of Rev., 477 S.W.3d 611, 618 (Mo. banc 2016); State ex rel. | 1 | 1 |
State ex rel. Kendrick Tipler, Relator v. The Honorable Michael Gardnergreen1 sentence2025Tipler v. Gardner, 506 S.W.3d 922, 925 (Mo. banc 2017). | 1 | 1 |
Crowell v. Coxgreen1 sentence2025See Crowell v. Cox, 561 S.W.3d 882 , 890 n.12 (Mo. App. W.D. 2018) (claim that Commission’s decision was not supported by competent and substantial evidence was separate and distinct from claim that Commission misapplied the law). | 1 | 1 |
King General Contractors, Inc. v. Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saintsgreen1 sentence2022King, 821 S.W.2d at 500 (“The critical distinction between collateral estoppel and res judicata is that the former operates only as to issues previously litigated but not as to matters not litigated in the prior action though such might properly have been determined.”) (emphasis in original). | 1 | 1 |
Goad v. Treasurer of the Stategreen1 sentence2019Goad v. Treasurer of State, 372 S.W.3d 1, 10 (Mo. App. W.D. 2011).6 Amended claims which create a new or distinct claim are not saved from the statute of limitations under Ford. | 1 | 1 |
Kevin M. Higgins and Sue E. Higgins v. Abigail J. Ferrari and Emmitt F. Smithgreen1 sentence2018See Higgins v. Ferrari , 474 S.W.3d 630 , 635 n.9 (Mo. App. W.D. 2015). | 1 | 1 |
State v. Frenchgreen1 sentence2016Cf. Ivie v. Smith, 439 S.W.3d 189 , 199 n. 11 (Mo.banc 2014) .("a substantial-evidence challenge, a misapplication-of-law challenge, and an against-the-weight-of-the-evidence challenge_are distinct claims” that must be raised "in separate points relied on ... to be preserved for appel-lale review”); Henson v. Henson, 195 S.W.3d 479, 483 (Mo.App.S.D.2006) ("[a] submission of error without reasoned argument does not allow the reviewing court to make a decision”); Maxon v. Leggett & Platt, 9 S.W.3d 725 , 729 (Mo.App.S.D.2000) (overruled on different.grounds, by Hampton v. Big Boy Steel Erection, | 1 | 1 |
Hampton v. Big Boy Steel Erectiongreen1 sentence2016Cf. Ivie v. Smith, 439 S.W.3d 189 , 199 n. 11 (Mo.banc 2014) .("a substantial-evidence challenge, a misapplication-of-law challenge, and an against-the-weight-of-the-evidence challenge_are distinct claims” that must be raised "in separate points relied on ... to be preserved for appel-lale review”); Henson v. Henson, 195 S.W.3d 479, 483 (Mo.App.S.D.2006) ("[a] submission of error without reasoned argument does not allow the reviewing court to make a decision”); Maxon v. Leggett & Platt, 9 S.W.3d 725 , 729 (Mo.App.S.D.2000) (overruled on different.grounds, by Hampton v. Big Boy Steel Erection, | 1 | 1 |
Shockley v. Harry Sander Realty Co., Inc.green1 sentence2015See Shockley v. Harry Sander Realty Co., 771 S.W.2d 922, 924, 925 (Mo. App. E.D. 1989); see also 21 Am. | 1 | 1 |
Saidawi v. Giovanni's Little Place, Inc.green1 sentence2015Saidawi v. Giovanni’s Little Place, Inc., 987 S.W.2d 501, 504 (Mo. App. E.D. 1999) (holding piercing corporate veil is independent claim) 6 ; but *369 of. 18 C.J.S. | 1 | 1 |
Holaus v. William J. Zickell Co.green1 sentence2015The Holaus Court held that the occupational disease claim did not “relate back” to the original claim for purposes of avoiding the statute of limitations because the second amended claim “create[d] a new and distinct claim” that “did not arise from the incident alleged [to have caused the injuries] in employee’s first two petitions.” Id. at 80-81. | 1 | 1 |
Carpenter v. Countrywide Home Loans, Inc.green1 sentence2012See generally Carpenter v. Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., 250 S.W.3d 697, 704 (Mo. banc 2008). | 1 | 1 |
United States v. William Esch, United States of America v. Linda Eschgreen1 sentence2012Cf. United States v. Esch, 832 F.2d 531, 542 (10th Cir.1987) (rejecting a defendant’s argument that her indictment was unconstitutionally multiplicitous and her assertion that only one crime occurred where she took multiple sexual photographic images of her two children during one photography session; discussing the allowable "unit of prosecution” at issue when the statute criminalized use of a minor to engage in "any sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing any visual depiction of such conduct,” and concluding that "each use of a minor to create a visual depiction constitutes a | 1 | 1 |
Ford v. American Brake Shoe Co.green1 sentence2011See Spencer, 302 S.W.3d at 803 (amendment providing additional details as to specific nature of occupational disease claim is not a new and distinct claim); Ford, 252 S.W.2d at 652-53 (amended claim merely perfected and amplified original claim, and therefore related back to filing date of original claim, where amendment claimed occupational disease (silicosis) due to exposure to harmful substances, rather than injury by accident due to swallowing sand on single occasion (as in original claim)); cf. Holaus v. Wm. | 1 | 1 |
Spencer v. Sac Osage Electric Co-op, Inc.green1 sentence2011See Spencer, 302 S.W.3d at 803 (amendment providing additional details as to specific nature of occupational disease claim is not a new and distinct claim); Ford, 252 S.W.2d at 652-53 (amended claim merely perfected and amplified original claim, and therefore related back to filing date of original claim, where amendment claimed occupational disease (silicosis) due to exposure to harmful substances, rather than injury by accident due to swallowing sand on single occasion (as in original claim)); cf. Holaus v. Wm. | 1 | 1 |
State v. Taylorgreen2 sentences1993The La-chterman court held that “[e]vidence of repeated acts of sexual abuse of children demonstrates, per se, a propensity for sexual aberration and a depraved sexual instinct and should be recognized as an additional distinct exception to the rule against the admission of evidence of uncharged crimes.” Id. at 768 ; see also State v. Taylor, 735 S.W.2d 412, 417 (Mo.App.1987). 1993The Lachterman court held that "[e]vidence of repeated acts of sexual abuse of children demonstrates, per se, a propensity for sexual aberration and a depraved sexual instinct and should be recognized as an additional distinct exception to the rule against the admission of evidence of uncharged crimes." Id. at 768 ; see also State v. Taylor, 735 S.W.2d 412, 417 (Mo.App.1987). | 1 | 1 |
State Ex Rel. General Electric Co. v. Gaertnergreen1 sentence1987General Electric Company v. Gaertner, 666 S.W.2d 764, 766 (Mo. banc 1984) which held a claim for contribution between defendants or joint tort feasors is a separate and distinct claim from the tort claim brought by plaintiff against the defendants. | 1 | 1 |
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State v. Lachterman
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2 sentences1993The La-chterman court held that “[e]vidence of repeated acts of sexual abuse of children demonstrates, per se, a propensity for sexual aberration and a depraved sexual instinct and should be recognized as an additional distinct exception to the rule against the admission of evidence of uncharged crimes.” Id. at 768 ; see also State v. Taylor, 735 S.W.2d 412, 417 (Mo.App.1987). 1993The Lachterman court held that "[e]vidence of repeated acts of sexual abuse of children demonstrates, per se, a propensity for sexual aberration and a depraved sexual instinct and should be recognized as an additional distinct exception to the rule against the admission of evidence of uncharged crimes." Id. at 768 ; see also State v. Taylor, 735 S.W.2d 412, 417 (Mo.App.1987). | 3 | 1991–1993 |
State v. O'Brien
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2 sentences1974In Brown , the court set forth the law as we have stated it, relying on State v. O’ Brien, supra; State v. Bockstruck, supra; State v. Price, supra; and State v. Smith, supra, approving this quotation from Kelley’s Criminal Law and Practice (3d Ed.) p. 149, § 193: “[W]here the exception or proviso is found in a separate and distinct clause or part of the statute, disconnected from that which describes the offense, no such negative averment is necessary in the indictment, and if the defendant is within the terms of the exception, he must show it in his defense.” Applying this law to the statute 1957In State v. Brown, 306 Mo. 532, 535 , 267 S.W. 864, 865 , the following from Kelley’s Criminal Law and Practice, 3d Ed. p. 149, § 193, was quoted with approval: “ ‘But where the exception or proviso is-found in a separate and distinct clause or part of the statute, disconnected from that which describes the offense, no such negative averment is necessary in the indictment, and if the defendant is within the terms of the exception, he must show it in his defense’.” And in the same connection the opinion cites the following from State v. O’Brien, 74 Mo. 549, 551 , as. being the true rule: “Whene | 2 | 1957–1974 |
State v. Brown
green
2 sentences1958Of course, we recognize that "`where the exception or proviso is found in a separate and distinct clause or part of the statute, disconnected from that which describes the offense, no * * * negative averment is necessary in the indictment, and if the defendant is within the terms of the exception, he must show it in his defense.'" State v. Brown, 306 Mo. 532, 535 , 267 S.W. 864, 865 ; State v. Zammar, Mo., 305 S.W.2d 441, 444 . 1958Of course, we recognize that "`where the exception or proviso is found in a separate and distinct clause or part of the statute, disconnected from that which describes the offense, no * * * negative averment is necessary in the indictment, and if the defendant is within the terms of the exception, he must show it in his defense.'" State v. Brown, 306 Mo. 532, 535 , 267 S.W. 864, 865 ; State v. Zammar, Mo., 305 S.W.2d 441, 444 . | 2 | 1957–1958 |
Vernonia School District 47J v. Acton
green
1 sentence2019T.L.O., 469 U.S. at 337 ; Vernonia, 515 U.S. at 652–53; Bd. of Educ. of Indep. | 1 | 2019–2019 |
New Jersey v. T. L. O.
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1 sentence2019T.L.O., 469 U.S. at 337 ; Vernonia, 515 U.S. at 652–53; Bd. of Educ. of Indep. | 1 | 2019–2019 |
Comair, Inc. v. Lexington-Fayette Urban County Airport Corp.
green
1 sentence2018Airport Corp., 295 S.W.3d 91 (Ky. 2009). | 1 | 2018–2018 |
Maxon v. Leggett & Platt
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1 sentence2016Cf. Ivie v. Smith, 439 S.W.3d 189 , 199 n. 11 (Mo.banc 2014) .("a substantial-evidence challenge, a misapplication-of-law challenge, and an against-the-weight-of-the-evidence challenge_are distinct claims” that must be raised "in separate points relied on ... to be preserved for appel-lale review”); Henson v. Henson, 195 S.W.3d 479, 483 (Mo.App.S.D.2006) ("[a] submission of error without reasoned argument does not allow the reviewing court to make a decision”); Maxon v. Leggett & Platt, 9 S.W.3d 725 , 729 (Mo.App.S.D.2000) (overruled on different.grounds, by Hampton v. Big Boy Steel Erection, | 1 | 2016–2016 |
Executive Board of the Missouri Baptist Convention v. Missouri Baptist Foundation
green
1 sentence2016This Court dismissed the appeal, finding that the 2011 Judgment was not an appealable partial final judgment, because it did not fully and finally resolve a distinct claim or “judicial unit.” 380 S.W.3d 599 . | 1 | 2016–2016 |
Richard E. Ivie, Jimmie R. Ivie, LaDonna Small, and Bernard Ivie v. Arnold L. Smith and Sidney B. Smith
green
1 sentence2016Cf. Ivie v. Smith, 439 S.W.3d 189 , 199 n. 11 (Mo.banc 2014) .("a substantial-evidence challenge, a misapplication-of-law challenge, and an against-the-weight-of-the-evidence challenge_are distinct claims” that must be raised "in separate points relied on ... to be preserved for appel-lale review”); Henson v. Henson, 195 S.W.3d 479, 483 (Mo.App.S.D.2006) ("[a] submission of error without reasoned argument does not allow the reviewing court to make a decision”); Maxon v. Leggett & Platt, 9 S.W.3d 725 , 729 (Mo.App.S.D.2000) (overruled on different.grounds, by Hampton v. Big Boy Steel Erection, | 1 | 2016–2016 |
Cooper v. State
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1 sentence2012We emphasize that in this, or in any case, whether trial counsel’s conduct violates a Rule of Professional Conduct is a separate and distinct inquiry from whether a criminal defendant has been denied his constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel. " '[B]reach of an ethical standard does not necessarily make out a denial of the Sixth Amendment guarantee of assistance of counsel.’ " Cooper, 356 S.W.3d at 157 (quoting Nix v. Whiteside, 475 U.S. 157, 165 , 106 S.Ct. 988 , 89 L.Ed.2d 123 (1986)). | 1 | 2012–2012 |
Nix v. Whiteside
green
2 sentences2012We emphasize that in this, or in any case, whether trial counsel’s conduct violates a Rule of Professional Conduct is a separate and distinct inquiry from whether a criminal defendant has been denied his constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel. " '[B]reach of an ethical standard does not necessarily make out a denial of the Sixth Amendment guarantee of assistance of counsel.’ " Cooper, 356 S.W.3d at 157 (quoting Nix v. Whiteside, 475 U.S. 157, 165 , 106 S.Ct. 988 , 89 L.Ed.2d 123 (1986)). 2012We emphasize that in this, or in any case, whether trial counsel’s conduct violates a Rule of Professional Conduct is a separate and distinct inquiry from whether a criminal defendant has been denied his constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel. " '[B]reach of an ethical standard does not necessarily make out a denial of the Sixth Amendment guarantee of assistance of counsel.’ " Cooper, 356 S.W.3d at 157 (quoting Nix v. Whiteside, 475 U.S. 157, 165 , 106 S.Ct. 988 , 89 L.Ed.2d 123 (1986)). | 1 | 2012–2012 |
| Franciscan Tertiary Province of Missouri, Inc. v. State Tax Commission green | 1 | 1984–1984 |
| State v. Meek green | 1 | 1958–1958 |
| State v. DeGroat green | 1 | 1958–1958 |
| State v. Ravenscraft neutral | 1 | 1958–1958 |
| State v. Raymond neutral | 1 | 1958–1958 |
| State v. Crenshaw neutral | 1 | 1958–1958 |
| James v. Oliver neutral | 1 | 1958–1958 |
| State v. Hamlett neutral | 1 | 1958–1958 |
| State v. Renkard neutral | 1 | 1958–1958 |
| State v. Zammar green | 1 | 1958–1958 |
| Markley v. State neutral | 1 | 1958–1958 |
| State v. Sparrow neutral | 1 | 1958–1958 |
| State v. Stanley neutral | 1 | 1958–1958 |
| State v. Shiflett neutral | 1 | 1957–1957 |
| State ex rel. Kelleher v. Board of President of St. Louis Public Schools green | 1 | 1914–1914 |
| Biest v. VerSteeg Shoe Co. green | 1 | 1905–1905 |
| Surface v. Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad neutral | 1 | 1887–1887 |
| Surface v. Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad green | 1 | 1887–1887 |
| Freeman v. Wilkerson neutral | 1 | 1875–1875 |
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