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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Court of Appeals of Texas / Joined 2006 / Active

Patrick A. Pirtle

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Patrick A. Pirtle is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, serving since 2006. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2006 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2006	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Pirtle authored 128 published opinions for the court (1988–2018), plus 12 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: Raw Hide Oil & Gas, Inc. v. Maxus Exploration Co. (329 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. 150 of these were attributed to Pirtle 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
1988	Raw Hide Oil & Gas, Inc. v. Maxus Exploration Co.	766 S.W.2d 264	329
2011	Williams v. State†	332 S.W.3d 694	147
2008	Winchester v. State†	246 S.W.3d 386	132
2011	Owen v. State†	352 S.W.3d 542	97
2008	Domingo v. Mitchell†	257 S.W.3d 34	94
2008	Hudson v. State†	247 S.W.3d 780	88
2009	Sieffert v. State†	290 S.W.3d 478	66
2012	Paul David Wolfe v. State†	377 S.W.3d 141	63
2009	Triplett v. State†	292 S.W.3d 205	63
2011	Ramirez v. State†	336 S.W.3d 846	60
2008	in the Interest of J.O.A., T.J.A.M., T.J.M., and C.T.M., Children†	262 S.W.3d 7	54
2008	Kevin DWayne Kennemur v. State†	280 S.W.3d 305	53
2008	Deschenes v. State†	253 S.W.3d 374	47
2010	Perez v. State†	323 S.W.3d 298	46
2010	Chaney v. State†	314 S.W.3d 561	42

Showing the 15 most-cited of 156 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 Patrick A. Pirtle on?: Patrick A. Pirtle is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

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20 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).