How do judges of the Court of Appeals of Texas reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Court of Appeals of Texas / Joined 1994 / Served to 2010

John Cayce

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

John Cayce was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, who joined the court in 1994. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1994–2010 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1994	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Cayce authored 601 published opinions for the court (1995–2011), plus 6 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Mays v. State (845 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. 83 of these were attributed to Cayce 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
1995	Mays v. State†	904 S.W.2d 920	845
2004	Boyd v. Boyd	131 S.W.3d 605	297
2002	In the Interest of T.D.C.†	91 S.W.3d 865	275
2001	Jackson v. State	50 S.W.3d 579	265
2001	Moore v. State	54 S.W.3d 529	262
1999	Beheler v. State	3 S.W.3d 182	212
2004	Citizens National Bank v. Allen Rae Investments Inc.	142 S.W.3d 459	166
2006	Cotten v. Weatherford Bancshares, Inc.	187 S.W.3d 687	162
2008	in the Interest of D.W., T.W., and S.G., Children· Concurrence†	249 S.W.3d 625	161
2004	Hubbard v. Shankle	138 S.W.3d 474	148
2005	Everett v. TK-Taito, L.L.C.	178 S.W.3d 844	147
1998	World Help v. Leisure Lifestyles, Inc.†	977 S.W.2d 662	144
2004	Ex Parte Hunt	138 S.W.3d 503	133
2005	IAC, LTD. v. Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc.	160 S.W.3d 191	130
2005	Dale v. State	170 S.W.3d 797	129

Showing the 15 most-cited of 612 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 John Cayce on?: John Cayce was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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16 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).