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Court of Appeals of Texas / Joined 2007 / Active

William J. Boyce

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

William J. Boyce is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, serving since 2007. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2007 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2007	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Education

Northwestern State University of Louisiana
Northwestern State University of Louisiana

Judicial Record

In our data, Boyce authored 495 published opinions for the court (1917–2018), plus 12 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Rehak Creative Services, Inc. and Robert Rehak v. Ann L. Witt, Ellen Witt, Raymond Witt and Ann Witt Campaign (123 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. 113 of these were attributed to Boyce 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
2013	Rehak Creative Services, Inc. and Robert Rehak v. Ann L. Witt, Ellen Witt, Raymond Witt and Ann Witt Campaign†	404 S.W.3d 716	123
2008	Duerr v. Brown	262 S.W.3d 63	119
1919	Texas Employers' Ins. Ass'n v. Downing	218 S.W. 112	98
2018	In re Interest of F.E.N.· Dissent†	542 S.W.3d 752	89
2009	Mayer Ex Rel. Mayer v. Willowbrook Plaza Ltd. Partnership	278 S.W.3d 901	88
2014	Kenneth Lee Douds v. State· Dissent†	434 S.W.3d 842	77
2008	City of Houston v. Petroleum Traders Corp.	261 S.W.3d 350	74
2009	in the Interest of K.J.S.†	302 S.W.3d 436	68
2009	Baylor College of Medicine v. Pokluda	283 S.W.3d 110	68
2010	Graves v. Tomlinson	329 S.W.3d 128	67
2011	Funes v. VILLATORO	352 S.W.3d 200	57
1918	Grayson County v. Harrell	202 S.W. 160	56
2010	Arriaga v. State	335 S.W.3d 331	55
2010	Enright v. Goodman Distribution, Inc.	330 S.W.3d 392	54
2010	Sharp Engineering v. Luis	321 S.W.3d 748	52

Showing the 15 most-cited of 523 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 William J. Boyce on?: William J. Boyce is a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

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18 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).