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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Court of Appeals of Texas / Joined 1993 / Active

Linda Yanez

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Linda Yanez is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, serving since 1993. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1993 · 33 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1993	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Yanez authored 291 published opinions for the court (1993–2011), plus 23 dissents and 14 concurrences. Most cited: Gonzalez Soto v. State (153 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. 179 of these were attributed to Yanez 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
2008	Gonzalez Soto v. State†	267 S.W.3d 327	153
2006	Hernandez v. State†	190 S.W.3d 856	124
1999	Norwest Mortgage, Inc. v. Salinas†	999 S.W.2d 846	94
2001	Jones v. Ray Insurance Agency	59 S.W.3d 739	91
2006	in the Interest of D.S.P. and H.R.P., Children†	210 S.W.3d 776	83
1997	Herrera v. State	951 S.W.2d 197	83
1996	Guzman v. State†	923 S.W.2d 792	82
2009	Yarto v. Gilliland†	287 S.W.3d 83	73
1994	Gonzalez v. Phoenix Frozen Foods, Inc.	884 S.W.2d 587	73
2000	Striedel v. Striedel· Dissent†	15 S.W.3d 163	71
1998	Falcon v. Ensignia†	976 S.W.2d 336	71
1998	Methodist Hospitals of Dallas v. Tall	972 S.W.2d 894	70
1997	Rosillo v. State	953 S.W.2d 808	69
2000	Ramirez v. State	13 S.W.3d 482	64
2007	Mercier v. Southwestern Bell Yellow Pages, Inc.· Concurrence†	214 S.W.3d 770	61

Showing the 15 most-cited of 328 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 Linda Yanez on?: Linda Yanez is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

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33 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).