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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals / Joined 1981 / Served to 1991

Marvin Odell Teague

Judge, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals

Marvin Odell Teague was a Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, who joined the court in 1981. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1933 · age 93
Tenure: 1981–1991 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1981	Texas Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Teague authored 199 published opinions for the court (1981–1991), plus 254 dissents and 132 concurrences. Most cited: Montgomery v. State (7,264 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. 466 of these were attributed to Teague 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
1991	Montgomery v. State· Dissent†	810 S.W.2d 372	7,264
1985	Almanza v. State	686 S.W.2d 157	6,557
1986	Hernandez v. State· Concurrence†	726 S.W.2d 53	3,060
1986	Sharp v. State· Dissent†	707 S.W.2d 611	1,862
1988	Moreno v. State· Concurrence†	755 S.W.2d 866	1,851
1989	Harris v. State· Dissent†	790 S.W.2d 568	1,170
1981	Garrett v. State†	619 S.W.2d 172	795
1984	Jackson v. State· Concurrence†	680 S.W.2d 809	725
1988	Rose v. State· Concurrence†	752 S.W.2d 529	647
1991	Johnson v. State· Dissent†	803 S.W.2d 272	621
1986	Thomas v. State· Dissent†	723 S.W.2d 696	615
1990	Studer v. State· Concurrence†	799 S.W.2d 263	503
1988	Ex Parte Axel· Concurrence†	757 S.W.2d 369	464
1985	Polk v. State· Concurrence†	693 S.W.2d 391	460
1986	Wilkerson v. State· Dissent†	726 S.W.2d 542	435

Showing the 15 most-cited of 595 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 Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Marvin Odell Teague on?: Marvin Odell Teague was a Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.

Sources

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10 years on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).