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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Court of Appeals of Texas / Joined 1992 / Active

Susan Larsen

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Susan Larsen is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, serving since 1992. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1992 · 34 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1992	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Larsen authored 214 published opinions for the court (1992–2015), plus 12 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: Airborne Freight Corp. v. C.R. Lee Enterprises, Inc. (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. 239 of these were attributed to Larsen 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
1993	Airborne Freight Corp. v. C.R. Lee Enterprises, Inc.†	847 S.W.2d 289	153
1992	Worsham Steel Co. v. Arias· Dissent†	831 S.W.2d 81	130
1997	Amoco Production Co. v. Smith†	946 S.W.2d 162	111
2004	In Re Bunzl USA, Inc.†	155 S.W.3d 202	106
1993	Dresser Industries, Inc. v. Snell†	847 S.W.2d 367	91
1995	Todd v. State· Concurrence†	911 S.W.2d 807	82
2002	Dillard Department Stores, Inc. v. Gonzales†	72 S.W.3d 398	79
1995	Laca v. State†	893 S.W.2d 171	73
1994	Campos v. Ysleta General Hospital, Inc.†	879 S.W.2d 67	73
1994	Moore Ex Rel. Moore v. Elektro-Mobil Technik GmbH†	874 S.W.2d 324	73
2002	Dailey v. Albertson's, Inc.†	83 S.W.3d 222	69
2001	In the Interest of B.R.G.†	48 S.W.3d 812	68
1994	DeLuna v. Guynes Printing Co. of Texas· Dissent†	884 S.W.2d 206	62
2004	Kelly v. Rio Grande Computerland Group†	128 S.W.3d 759	61
2000	Castaneda v. State†	28 S.W.3d 216	55

Showing the 15 most-cited of 239 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 Susan Larsen on?: Susan Larsen is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

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34 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).