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Supreme Court of Texas / Joined 1993 / Served to 2003

Craig T. Enoch

Justice, Supreme Court of Texas

Craig T. Enoch was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, who joined the court in 1993. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1950 · age 76
Tenure: 1993–2003 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1993	Supreme Court of Texas	–	–

Education

Southern Methodist University
Southern Methodist University

Judicial Record

In our data, Enoch authored 109 published opinions for the court (1993–2003), plus 37 dissents and 47 concurrences. Most cited: Verburgt v. Dorner (2,685 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. 131 of these were attributed to Enoch 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
1998	Verburgt v. Dorner· Dissent†	959 S.W.2d 615	2,685
2002	Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission v. IT-Davy· Dissent†	74 S.W.3d 849	1,966
1993	McConnell v. Southside Independent School District· Dissent†	858 S.W.2d 337	1,797
2003	In the Interest of A.V.†	113 S.W.3d 355	1,787
2002	Southwestern Electric Power Co. v. Grant· Concurrence†	73 S.W.3d 211	1,630
1997	Science Spectrum, Inc. v. Martinez· Dissent†	941 S.W.2d 910	1,594
1997	American Tobacco Co., Inc. v. Grinnell· Concurrence†	951 S.W.2d 420	1,558
1999	KPMG Peat Marwick v. Harrison County Housing Finance Corp.	988 S.W.2d 746	1,451
2003	In the Interest of M.S.†	115 S.W.3d 534	1,402
1997	Federal Sign v. Texas Southern University· Dissent†	951 S.W.2d 401	1,114
2001	In Re Firstmerit Bank, N.A.	52 S.W.3d 749	1,027
2001	General Services Commission v. Little-Tex Insulation Co.· Dissent†	39 S.W.3d 591	943
1994	City of Lancaster v. Chambers· Concurrence†	883 S.W.2d 650	928
1997	Green International, Inc. v. Solis†	951 S.W.2d 384	865
2000	Prudential Insurance Co. of America v. Financial Review Services, Inc.· Dissent†	29 S.W.3d 74	804

Showing the 15 most-cited of 193 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 Craig T. Enoch on?: Craig T. Enoch was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas.

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10 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).