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Supreme Court of Texas / Joined 1945 / Served to 1949

A J. Folley

Justice, Supreme Court of Texas

A J. Folley was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, who joined the court in 1945. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1896–1982
Tenure: 1945–1949 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1945	Supreme Court of Texas	–	–

Education

Baylor University
Baylor University

Judicial Record

In our data, Folley authored 57 published opinions for the court (1943–1949), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Wilson v. Fisher (282 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. 9 of these were attributed to Folley 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
1945	Wilson v. Fisher	188 S.W.2d 150	282
1944	Board of Insurance Commissioners v. Guardian Life Insurance	180 S.W.2d 906	156
1944	Coxson v. Atlanta Life Insurance	179 S.W.2d 943	142
1948	Jackson v. Hall, C.J.	214 S.W.2d 458	135
1948	Hawkins v. Safety Casualty Co.†	146 Tex. 381	135
1949	Ford Butane Eq. Co. v. Carpenter	216 S.W.2d 558	123
1948	Mills v. Gray	210 S.W.2d 985	123
1949	Austin Road Co. v. Pope	216 S.W.2d 563	116
1947	City of Beaumont v. Moore†	146 Tex. 46	111
1947	Sam Bassett Lumber Co. v. City of Houston	198 S.W.2d 879	109
1948	Elliff v. Texon Drilling. Co.	210 S.W.2d 558	100
1943	National Carloading Corp. v. Phoenix-El Paso Express, Inc.	176 S.W.2d 564	98
1945	Richardson v. Hart	185 S.W.2d 563	97
1944	Bridgman v. Moore	183 S.W.2d 705	86
1944	White v. White	179 S.W.2d 503	83

Showing the 15 most-cited of 59 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 Supreme Court of Texas reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was A J. Folley on?: A J. Folley was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas.

Sources

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3 years on the Supreme Court of Texas. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).