Dade County Court Calendars Explained
The Dade County Circuit Clerk maintains three recurring 2026 lists. They cover Associate Criminal Court, Circuit Court law days, and Civil Court dates. The printed schedule is effective August 26, 2025. Each list names the division, the judge, and a start time. That heading matters. Pull a date off the list without its label. That can send you to the wrong courtroom entirely. Think of the Dade County court calendar as a planning tool. It is not a guarantee that every case will be heard on each listed day. When one specific matter is the question, the case-specific setting wins. A Dade Case.net Docket Entries record can show the hearing date, time, location, judge, and event type. The citation, summons, or notice of hearing gives you an initial setting too. What if those Dade sources disagree? Give more weight to the newest docket entry. A filed notice or order counts too, and so does direct confirmation from the Dade clerk. The recurring annual list comes last in that pecking order.
Dade County 2026 Court Dates
Three recurring schedules are published for Dade County. Judge Troxell holds Dade Associate Criminal Court at 10:00 a.m. on January 13, February 10, March 10, April 14, May 12, June 9, July 14, August 4, September 8, October 6, November 3, and December 22. Judge Munton's Dade Circuit Court law days also start at 10:00 a.m. They open January 14. The sessions run monthly through December 9. Dade Civil Court with Judge Troxell is set for 10:00 a.m. It runs from January 6 through November 10. No December civil date appears on that published list.
Expect a Dade hearing to run longer than 10 minutes? It needs a special setting. The Dade notice asks you to send available dates with the request. That is only a scheduling rule, not proof a case has been set. The criminal, law-day, and civil lists can point to a likely session. But the most recent Dade County court date on the case docket is what controls. Check that entry before you rely on any calendar.
Missouri's official Municipal Clerk Manual explains how clerks display and maintain calendars for court work.
The manual's advice is straightforward. Pair the state court calendar tools with Dade's division-specific planning lists, and never treat a printed schedule as a substitute for a current setting.
Finding Your Court Date
Missouri Case.net is the main online route to a Dade date. Enter through the Dade clerk's official Case.net link. Pick the search method that fits what you know. Then select the 28th Judicial Circuit for Dade. A Dade name, case number, ticket number, or scheduled-hearings search leads to the Case Header and its Docket Entries. Read the newest setting. The first date on the screen may not be the one that counts.
- Read the Dade citation, summons, or hearing notice first and retain the Dade case or ticket number if one appears.
- Use Missouri Case.net to search the 28th Judicial Circuit by Dade litigant name or case number, then open the Case Header and Dade Docket Entries.
- Use Scheduled Hearings & Trials Search with the court, location, and date controls when the case record is unclear; the annual Dade criminal, law-day, and civil lists provide a separate planning check.
- Call 417-637-2741 for Dade traffic, payment, or date questions, or 417-238-2400 for the general Circuit Clerk and records line. Ask for the operative setting.
- At the Dade courthouse, ask the Dade Circuit Clerk for the public terminal or posted calendar. The Dade counter is at 300 W. Water Street, Greenfield, Missouri 65661.
- For a written calendar or copy request, identify the case number, caption, requested date range, division, and preferred format. The Dade form may be sent by mail or to dade.circuit.court.email@courts.mo.gov, but an email attachment is not a court filing.
- If the matter began as a Greenfield ticket, compare the result with the issuing city. Greenfield's municipal clerk is a local fallback at 105 S. Grand Street, 417-637-2532; other municipal calendars were not located.
Call or visit the clerk when a Dade online date is missing, stale, or clashes with a notice. Dade posts no remote-hearing policy or Zoom link. Any Dade remote-appearance instruction should come from the current notice or the Dade clerk.
Dade County Court Calendar Search
Scheduled Hearings & Trials Search is Case.net's Dade calendar-focused mode. The official municipal manual confirms that public calendars display through that route. For Dade, select the 28th Judicial Circuit first. Then use the Dade date and court or division controls. They appear in the live interface. A Dade case number can narrow the search when that field is offered. Dade case type may appear as well, depending on the live options. This route works alongside a case-number search, not instead of one. It answers what is set for a Dade date. The Dade Docket Entries view answers what happened in a particular case. The Dade Circuit Clerk's page also separates the recurring Dade Associate, Circuit, and Civil dates. The separation helps you avoid a common mix-up. Do not mistake a law day for an individual hearing.
| Search control | Type | Use in Dade |
|---|---|---|
| Search For Cases In | Dropdown | Choose the 28th Judicial Circuit for Dade. |
| Dade court or division | Dropdown | Use the division offered for the Dade setting. |
| Dade hearing date | Date field | Set the Dade date being checked. |
| Dade case number | Text field | Use when available to narrow a Dade result. |
| Dade case type | Filter | Use only if the displayed interface offers it. |
How to Read a Court Setting
A Dade setting is an event on a court calendar. It is not an outcome. Case.net may show the Dade date, time, judge, courtroom or location, and an event label. Compare that against the most recent docket entry. A later Dade setting can replace an earlier one. Both may stay visible in the chronological record. Watch the Dade page for words like continued, reset, passed, or hearing scheduled.
| Date | The scheduled calendar date, which can change through a later entry or order. |
|---|---|
| Time | The listed start time for the setting or docket call; it is not a guarantee of the exact order of cases. |
| Courtroom or location | The courtroom or location shown in the current case record or notice. Confirm it when the record is unclear. |
| Judge or division | The judge or court division handling that setting, which may differ from a recurring calendar heading. |
| Setting type | The event label, such as arraignment, motion hearing, trial setting, review, or a special setting. |
A Dade hearing held proves no such thing about a case being finished. Check the Dade status and any later disposition entry on its own. A disposition is the recorded result that resolves or closes a Dade matter.
Dade County Court Date Terms
Dade's calendar labels tell you what kind of session is coming. The Dade case docket entry tells you the truth. It says what the event actually is. A criminal court date in Dade County might be an arraignment, a plea, a pretrial conference, or a status check. It might be something else entirely. Law day, in the Dade Circuit, is simply a recurring Circuit Court session. Civil settings in Dade can cover motions, status events, case management, or other assigned matters. Read the event label itself. It carries more weight than any guess drawn from the calendar heading alone.
- Arraignment
- A court appearance where a criminal charge is addressed and a plea or rights response is handled.
- Motion hearing
- A hearing on a request made to the judge. The filing and the ruling can be separate docket entries.
- Trial setting
- A date assigned for a jury or bench trial. It can later be continued.
- Review or probation setting
- A later compliance or status event, not necessarily a new charge.
- Dismissal docket
- A list of inactive cases placed before a court for a possible dismissal decision.
The official manual uses SCDH as its shorthand for a dismissal hearing. Do not count on every Dade screen following that habit, though. The entry text on the Dade case docket is what gives the abbreviation its meaning.
Continuances, Resets, and Cancellations
A Dade hearing date can move without the annual calendar ever changing. Scan the Docket Entries for phrases like "continued from" or "reset." Watch for "pass," "continued," or a later "hearing scheduled" line too. The newest Dade event usually names the operative date. Two dates can both appear on screen. Do not assume the older one was cancelled or that the whole case dropped off the Dade calendar. One hearing can be continued while another setting stands untouched.
The docket may not explain why a date moved. The signed order or the clerk can supply that detail. The clerk cannot give legal advice, though. Municipal and traffic matters carry an extra wrinkle. A failure to appear or pay can trigger a notice, a warrant or capias, or a compliance path. That path sits apart from the court's calendar record.
Dade County Court Calendar Conflicts
A Dade citation, a Case.net entry, and the annual list can each point to a different date. Treat the annual list only as a planning aid. Start with the newest case-specific Docket Entries setting, plus any filed notice or order. Then call the right Dade clerk line and ask which setting is operative right now. No Dade rule gives a static annual calendar priority over a later case-specific order.
For a municipal case, find out which city issued the ticket. Do not decide a Dade search failed before that. Greenfield keeps its own municipal clerk. A city process can run before anything reaches the municipal division of the 28th Judicial Circuit. Ask the city clerk or the Dade Circuit Clerk where the matter is being handled. A date missing online may also mean a new filing, a confidential record, or one that has not been indexed yet. The official municipal-calendar materials draw a clear line between the calendar process and the underlying case record.
That line between calendar and case record matters when a recurring Dade court calendar date changes. A current case-specific entry, confirmed directly, is still the surest check.
If You Miss a Court Setting
Missed a Dade setting? Act quickly. Check Case.net for the newest entry. Then call the right Circuit Clerk line and ask whether a new setting, order, or appearance requirement has posted. Bring the case or ticket number if you have it. An old annual calendar date is not a safe guide for what to do next. The court record, any notice, and the clerk will tell you the current procedural status.
Missed a Setting? A missed court date can result in a failure-to-appear notice, a warrant or capias, or bond forfeiture, depending on the case and court action.
Contact the Dade County Circuit Clerk promptly to identify the current setting and any required next step.
Consider consulting a licensed attorney about the consequences of a missed Dade County court setting before appearing.
Dade County Court Special Settings
Dade's court-date notice draws a practical line. Any hearing expected to run more than 10 minutes needs a special setting with your available dates submitted. A special setting is not the same as grabbing a recurring criminal, law-day, or civil slot. It accounts for the actual time a hearing needs. It must also be coordinated with the Dade court calendar.
Before you request one, gather the case, the division, the hearing type, and the parties' open dates. Then check the current Docket Entries history. That way an earlier continuance or existing setting does not slip past you. The clerk is the local contact here. The public Dade materials list no separate court-coordinator phone lines.
Note: a special-setting request never substitutes for a filed notice or a confirmed Dade County court date.