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Supreme Court of Texas / Joined 1956 / Served to 1956

Abner V. McCall

Justice, Supreme Court of Texas

Abner V. McCall was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, who joined the court in 1956. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1915–1995
Tenure: 1956–1956

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1956	Supreme Court of Texas	–	–

Education

Baylor University

Judicial Record

In our data, McCall authored 5 published opinions for the court (1956–1957), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: City of Mission v. Popplewell (80 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. 2 of these were attributed to McCall 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
1956	City of Mission v. Popplewell	294 S.W.2d 712	80
1956	Wichita City Lines, Inc. v. Puckett	295 S.W.2d 894	62
1956	Southern Pacific Company v. Hubbard	297 S.W.2d 120	52
1956	Smith v. Allison· Concurrence†	301 S.W.2d 608	52
1957	San Antonio River Authority v. Shepperd	299 S.W.2d 920	30
1956	Burchfield v. Markham	294 S.W.2d 795	10
1956	Sandsberry v. INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MACH.· Dissent†	295 S.W.2d 412	8

Showing the 7 most-cited of 7 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 Abner V. McCall on?: Abner V. McCall was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas.

Sources

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Joined the court in 1956. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).