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 2004

Paul W. Green

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

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

Tenure: 1994–2004 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Green authored 402 published opinions for the court (1963–2005), plus 30 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: Safety-Kleen Corp. v. Garcia (474 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. 191 of these were attributed to Green 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
1997	Safety-Kleen Corp. v. Garcia†	945 S.W.2d 268	474
2004	In Re Hearn	137 S.W.3d 681	239
1996	Chilton Insurance Co. v. Pate & Pate Enterprises, Inc.†	930 S.W.2d 877	176
1996	America's Favorite Chicken Co. v. Samaras	929 S.W.2d 617	115
2000	Herring v. Welborn· Concurrence†	27 S.W.3d 132	109
1998	Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Middleton†	982 S.W.2d 468	101
1996	Holden v. Weidenfeller· Dissent†	929 S.W.2d 124	96
1998	In Re L.A.M. & Associates	975 S.W.2d 80	87
2001	Martinez v. City of San Antonio†	40 S.W.3d 587	77
1997	Texas Department of Public Safety v. Deck	954 S.W.2d 108	77
1996	Markel v. World Flight, Inc.	938 S.W.2d 74	77
1998	Magnolia Gas Co. v. Knight Equipment & Manufacturing Corp.	994 S.W.2d 684	70
2000	State v. Oliver†	29 S.W.3d 190	64
1999	Wood v. Tice†	988 S.W.2d 829	64
1998	Brown v. State· Dissent†	974 S.W.2d 289	63

Showing the 15 most-cited of 443 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 Paul W. Green on?: Paul W. Green was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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10 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).