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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Texas / Joined 1991 / Served to 1995

Bob Gammage

Justice, Supreme Court of Texas

Bob Gammage was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, who joined the court in 1991. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1938–2012
Tenure: 1991–1995 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1991	Supreme Court of Texas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Gammage authored 33 published opinions for the court (1991–1996), plus 28 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: Walker v. Packer (8,808 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. 51 of these were attributed to Gammage 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	Walker v. Packer· Dissent†	827 S.W.2d 833	8,808
1993	Texas Ass'n of Business v. Texas Air Control Board· Concurrence†	852 S.W.2d 440	5,047
1994	Catalina v. Blasdel	881 S.W.2d 295	1,422
1995	Doe v. Boys Clubs of Greater Dallas, Inc.· Dissent†	907 S.W.2d 472	1,206
1991	Lear Siegler, Inc. v. Perez	819 S.W.2d 470	1,096
1996	Star-Telegram, Inc. v. Doe	915 S.W.2d 471	986
1994	Natividad v. Alexsis, Inc.· Concurrence†	875 S.W.2d 695	918
1995	Parkway Co. v. Woodruff· Dissent†	901 S.W.2d 434	722
1992	Travis v. City of Mesquite	830 S.W.2d 94	644
1994	University of Texas Medical Branch v. York· Dissent†	871 S.W.2d 175	547
1992	Heldenfels Bros. v. City of Corpus Christi· Dissent†	832 S.W.2d 39	495
1995	Sysco Food Services, Inc. v. Trapnell†	890 S.W.2d 796	475
1994	Kassen v. Hatley· Concurrence†	887 S.W.2d 4	467
1995	State Farm Life Insurance Co v. Beaston· Dissent†	907 S.W.2d 430	431
1992	Luckel v. White	819 S.W.2d 459	392

Showing the 15 most-cited of 74 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 Bob Gammage on?: Bob Gammage was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas.

Sources

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4 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).