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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Court of Appeals of Texas / Joined 1998 / Served to 2010

Jan P. Patterson

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Jan P. Patterson was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, who joined the court in 1998. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1998–2010 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1998	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Patterson authored 257 published opinions for the court (1910–2010), plus 27 dissents and 24 concurrences. Most cited: Zeifman v. Michels (348 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. 142 of these were attributed to Patterson 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
2006	Zeifman v. Michels†	212 S.W.3d 582	348
2000	Roberson v. State	16 S.W.3d 156	277
1999	Roise v. State	7 S.W.3d 225	252
2004	Howell v. Texas Workers' Compensation Commission†	143 S.W.3d 416	226
2003	Coggin v. State	123 S.W.3d 82	215
2002	Echols v. Olivarez	85 S.W.3d 475	213
2007	Austin Heart, P.A. v. Webb· Dissent†	228 S.W.3d 276	195
2002	Gables Realty Ltd. Partnership v. Travis Central Appraisal District†	81 S.W.3d 869	177
2000	H.G. Sledge, Inc. v. Prospective Investment & Trading Co.	36 S.W.3d 597	169
2007	Hendee v. Dewhurst· Concurrence†	228 S.W.3d 354	156
1999	Stable Energy, L.P. v. Newberry	999 S.W.2d 538	154
2009	University of Texas v. Poindexter· Concurrence†	306 S.W.3d 798	149
2001	Rylander v. Fisher Controls International, Inc.	45 S.W.3d 291	148
2002	Flores v. Employees Retirement System of Texas	74 S.W.3d 532	137
2005	In the Interest of J.R.D. and T.C.D.†	169 S.W.3d 740	121

Showing the 15 most-cited of 308 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 was Jan P. Patterson on?: Jan P. Patterson was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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12 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).