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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Court of Appeals of Texas / Joined 2000 / Active

David Puryear

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

David Puryear is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, serving since 2000. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2000 · 26 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Education

Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Judicial Record

In our data, Puryear authored 348 published opinions for the court (2001–2018), plus 14 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Mary Louise Serafine v. Alexander Blunt and Ashley Blunt (202 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. 203 of these were attributed to Puryear 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
2015	Mary Louise Serafine v. Alexander Blunt and Ashley Blunt†	466 S.W.3d 352	202
2004	Williams v. Williams	150 S.W.3d 436	190
2002	Texas Health Care Information Council v. Seton Health Plan, Inc.· Dissent†	94 S.W.3d 841	152
2002	O'CAROLAN v. Hopper	71 S.W.3d 529	149
2016	Brandon Robisheaux v. State†	483 S.W.3d 205	143
2011	Gaytan v. State†	331 S.W.3d 218	134
2002	Beacon National Insurance Co. v. Montemayor	86 S.W.3d 260	134
2002	West Beach Marina, Ltd. v. Erdeljac	94 S.W.3d 248	124
2002	Thomas v. Cornyn	71 S.W.3d 473	122
2005	In the Interest of J.R.D. and T.C.D.· Concurrence†	169 S.W.3d 740	121
2002	DeLeon v. State	77 S.W.3d 300	118
2005	Barnes v. State	165 S.W.3d 75	116
2006	Williams v. State	191 S.W.3d 242	111
2002	Ganesan v. Vallabhaneni	96 S.W.3d 345	103
2002	Ersek v. Davis & Davis, P.C.	69 S.W.3d 268	99

Showing the 15 most-cited of 368 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 Court of Appeals of Texas reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court is David Puryear on?: David Puryear is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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26 years on the Court of Appeals of Texas. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).