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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Court of Appeals of Texas / Joined 2002 / Active

Douglas Lang

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Douglas Lang is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, serving since 2002. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2002 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2002	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Education

Drake University

Judicial Record

In our data, Lang authored 521 published opinions for the court (2002–2018), plus 3 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Taylor v. State (343 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. 342 of these were attributed to Lang 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
2003	Taylor v. State†	106 S.W.3d 827	343
2004	Strange v. Continental Casualty Co.†	126 S.W.3d 676	340
2003	Castaneda v. State	135 S.W.3d 719	249
2008	In Re Butler	270 S.W.3d 757	215
2009	Texas Integrated Conveyor Systems, Inc. v. Innovative Conveyor Concepts, Inc.†	300 S.W.3d 348	200
2006	Willms v. Americas Tire Co., Inc.†	190 S.W.3d 796	173
2005	Adams v. First National Bank of Bells/Savoy†	154 S.W.3d 859	156
2004	Johnson v. Structured Asset Services, LLC†	148 S.W.3d 711	143
2007	Oaic Commercial Assets, L.L.C. v. Stonegate Village, L.P.†	234 S.W.3d 726	142
2004	Niskar v. Niskar†	136 S.W.3d 749	131
2005	Smith v. State†	176 S.W.3d 907	126
2005	Green v. Kaposta†	152 S.W.3d 839	124
2010	Render v. State†	316 S.W.3d 846	120
2007	Walker v. Anderson†	232 S.W.3d 899	116
2008	In the Interest of C.C.J.†	244 S.W.3d 911	114

Showing the 15 most-cited of 525 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 Douglas Lang on?: Douglas Lang is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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23 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).