Federal Court — MO
Eastern District of Missouri
Aggregate docket intelligence for the Eastern District of Missouri compiled from verified federal court records. Judge caseload counts, criminal docket fractions, and sentencing departure rates — never a prediction about a specific defendant.
Source: CourtListener × FJC IDB × USSC FY14-23 — generated May 5, 2026
District Aggregate
Total Dockets
83,748
indexed in corpus
Judges Indexed
32
with docket data
Avg Criminal Fraction
13.0%
across district judges
Booker Inflection
—
mean downward departure
Criminal fraction = criminal dockets ÷ total dockets per judge, averaged across the district. Booker inflection = mean downward-departure rate for judges in this district per USSC FY14-23. Aggregate frequencies only — not a prediction about any specific case.
Top Judges by Docket Volume
Judges ranked by total indexed docket count. Criminal fraction reflects the share of their docket classified as criminal (vs. civil).
| Judge | Total Dockets | Criminal Dockets | Criminal Fraction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rodney Sippel | 7,383 | 448 | 6.1% |
| Jean Hamilton | 6,735 | 1,445 | 21.5% |
| Catherine Perry | 6,625 | 727 | 11.0% |
| Carol Jackson | 5,979 | 1,051 | 17.6% |
| Henry Autrey | 5,181 | 175 | 3.4% |
| Stephen Limbaugh | 4,966 | 1,274 | 25.7% |
| Charles Shaw | 4,932 | 666 | 13.5% |
| E. Webber | 4,337 | 610 | 14.1% |
| Donald Stohr | 4,201 | 1,100 | 26.2% |
| Audrey Fleissig | 3,008 | 66 | 2.2% |
Source: CourtListener × FJC IDB via mv_judge_docket_caseload. Counts reflect dockets indexed as of corpus build date.
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This is legal information, not legal advice. Aggregate data from verified public court records. Nothing here predicts a specific outcome.