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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Court of Appeals of Texas / Joined 1988 / Served to 2014

Woodfin J. Jones

Justice, Court of Appeals of Texas

Woodfin J. Jones was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas, who joined the court in 1988. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1988–2014 · 26 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1988	Court of Appeals of Texas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Jones authored 1,209 published opinions for the court (1922–2014), plus 22 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Stone v. State (548 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. 155 of these were attributed to Jones 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
1992	Stone v. State	823 S.W.2d 375	548
1998	Jackson v. Fiesta Mart, Inc.	979 S.W.2d 68	477
1992	Orona v. State	836 S.W.2d 319	406
1992	Westech Engineering, Inc. v. Clearwater Constructors, Inc.	835 S.W.2d 190	394
1995	Skillern v. State	890 S.W.2d 849	298
1998	Hernandez v. State	983 S.W.2d 867	281
1990	Torres v. State	794 S.W.2d 596	197
1993	First State Bank v. Keilman	851 S.W.2d 914	172
1991	Dillard v. Austin Independent School District	806 S.W.2d 589	169
2013	Felix Sandoval v. State†	409 S.W.3d 259	166
1997	Oestrick v. State	939 S.W.2d 232	164
1998	Texas Department of Public Safety v. Moore	985 S.W.2d 149	157
1998	City of Austin v. L.S. Ranch, Ltd.	970 S.W.2d 750	151
2009	University of Texas v. Poindexter†	306 S.W.3d 798	149
2014	Kirk Brand Coburn v. Janet Moreland†	433 S.W.3d 809	146

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,248 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 Woodfin J. Jones on?: Woodfin J. Jones was a Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas.

Sources

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26 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).