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Supreme Court of Texas / Joined 1977 / Served to 1984

Charles W. Barrow

Justice, Supreme Court of Texas

Charles W. Barrow was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, who joined the court in 1977. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1921–2006
Tenure: 1977–1984 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1977	Supreme Court of Texas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Barrow authored 84 published opinions for the court (1977–1984), plus 16 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Coker v. Coker (2,505 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. 25 of these were attributed to Barrow 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
1983	Coker v. Coker	650 S.W.2d 391	2,505
1984	Texas Health Facilities Commission v. Charter Medical-Dallas, Inc.	665 S.W.2d 446	705
1984	La Sara Grain Co. v. First National Bank of Mercedes· Dissent†	673 S.W.2d 558	432
1979	Stoner v. Massey· Dissent†	586 S.W.2d 843	351
1984	Jampole v. Touchy· Dissent†	673 S.W.2d 569	326
1983	Borderlon v. Peck· Dissent†	661 S.W.2d 907	323
1983	Cunningham v. Parkdale Bank	660 S.W.2d 810	306
1982	Vallone v. Vallone· Dissent†	644 S.W.2d 455	269
1983	Suburban Utility Corp. v. Public Utility Commission	652 S.W.2d 358	262
1980	Duhart v. State	610 S.W.2d 740	257
1980	Texas Bank and Trust Co. v. Moore· Concurrence†	595 S.W.2d 502	243
1981	Ex Parte Abell	613 S.W.2d 255	225
1984	State v. Rotello	671 S.W.2d 507	212
1984	Vance v. My Apartment Steak House of San Antonio, Inc.	677 S.W.2d 480	202
1982	City of Brookside Village v. Comeau	633 S.W.2d 790	189

Showing the 15 most-cited of 103 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 Charles W. Barrow on?: Charles W. Barrow was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas.

Sources

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7 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).