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 1967 / Served to 1973

Samuel D. Johnson Jr.

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Samuel D. Johnson Jr. was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, who joined the court in 1967. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1967–1973 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1967	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Johnson authored 164 published opinions for the court (1967–1972), plus 3 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Pat H. Foley & Company v. Wyatt (65 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. 56 of these were attributed to Johnson 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
1969	Pat H. Foley & Company v. Wyatt	442 S.W.2d 904	65
1968	Sharp v. Chrysler Corporation· Concurrence†	432 S.W.2d 131	56
1970	Mercer v. Band	454 S.W.2d 833	52
1969	Poston Feed Mill Company v. Leyva	438 S.W.2d 366	36
1968	Erickson v. Rocco· Dissent†	433 S.W.2d 746	33
1967	Coca Cola Bottling Company of Houston v. Hobart· Dissent†	423 S.W.2d 118	33
1967	Reuter v. Cordes-Hendreks Coiffures, Inc.	422 S.W.2d 193	33
1971	City of Baytown v. Angel	469 S.W.2d 923	31
1970	Revisore v. West	450 S.W.2d 361	30
1972	Westbrook v. Wright	477 S.W.2d 663	28
1968	Leach v. State· Concurrence†	428 S.W.2d 817	28
1968	Coastal States Gas Producing Company v. Locker	436 S.W.2d 592	27
1968	Broadway Drug Store of Galveston, Inc. v. Trowbridge	435 S.W.2d 268	27
1972	Metal Window Products Co. v. Magnusen	485 S.W.2d 355	22
1971	Houston Endowment, Inc. v. City of Houston	468 S.W.2d 540	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 170 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 Samuel D. Johnson Jr. on?: Samuel D. Johnson Jr. was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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6 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).