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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Court of Appeals of Texas / Joined 1991 / Active

Federico Hinojosa

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Federico Hinojosa is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, serving since 1991. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1991 · 35 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1991	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hinojosa authored 391 published opinions for the court (1991–2006), plus 14 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Pegasus Energy Group, Inc. v. Cheyenne Petroleum Co. (131 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. 414 of these were attributed to Hinojosa 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
1999	Pegasus Energy Group, Inc. v. Cheyenne Petroleum Co.†	3 S.W.3d 112	131
2002	Alejandro v. Bell†	84 S.W.3d 383	116
1992	Castaneda v. Texas Department of Agriculture†	831 S.W.2d 501	113
1991	Home Owners Funding Corp. of America v. Scheppler†	815 S.W.2d 884	109
1994	Herschbach v. City of Corpus Christi†	883 S.W.2d 720	103
1993	Benavides v. Moore†	848 S.W.2d 190	101
2004	Coleman v. State†	131 S.W.3d 303	93
1993	Greater Houston Transportation Co. v. Zrubeck†	850 S.W.2d 579	93
2001	Ford v. City State Bank of Palacios†	44 S.W.3d 121	90
1993	Texas Commerce Bank Reagan Ex Rel. Texas Commerce Bank National Ass'n v. Lebco Constructors, Inc.†	865 S.W.2d 68	86
2006	Valley Baptist Medical Center v. Azua†	198 S.W.3d 810	83
1994	Thomas v. McNair†	882 S.W.2d 870	78
1992	Kelly v. Diocese of Corpus Christi†	832 S.W.2d 88	78
2004	Meru v. Huerta†	136 S.W.3d 383	73
1992	Phetvongkham v. State†	841 S.W.2d 928	71

Showing the 15 most-cited of 414 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 Federico Hinojosa on?: Federico Hinojosa is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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35 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).