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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Texas / Joined 1988 / Served to 1992

Eugene A. Cook

Justice, Supreme Court of Texas

Eugene A. Cook was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, who joined the court in 1988. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1938 · age 88
Tenure: 1988–1992 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1988	Supreme Court of Texas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Cook authored 35 published opinions for the court (1988–1993), plus 12 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Plas-Tex, Inc. v. U.S. Steel Corp. (1,163 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. 20 of these were attributed to Cook 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
1989	Plas-Tex, Inc. v. U.S. Steel Corp.	772 S.W.2d 442	1,163
1992	Holt Atherton Industries, Inc. v. Heine	835 S.W.2d 80	1,117
1991	Beaumont Bank, N.A. v. Buller	806 S.W.2d 223	1,110
1993	T.O. Stanley Boot Co. v. Bank of El Paso	847 S.W.2d 218	896
1992	Keetch v. Kroger Co.	845 S.W.2d 262	712
1990	Schlobohm v. Schapiro	784 S.W.2d 355	687
1990	Texas Department of Human Services v. E.B.	802 S.W.2d 647	677
1992	Travis v. City of Mesquite· Dissent†	830 S.W.2d 94	644
1991	Fort Bend County Drainage District v. Sbrusch	818 S.W.2d 392	454
1990	Lewelling v. Lewelling· Concurrence†	796 S.W.2d 164	393
1991	Eagle Properties, Ltd. v. Scharbauer	807 S.W.2d 714	367
1992	Leleaux v. Hamshire-Fannett Independent School District· Dissent†	835 S.W.2d 49	285
1992	Railroad Com'n of Texas v. Lone Star Gas Co.· Concurrence†	844 S.W.2d 679	233
1990	Rose v. Doctors Hospital	801 S.W.2d 841	232
1992	Bank One, Texas, N.A. v. Moody	830 S.W.2d 81	222

Showing the 15 most-cited of 54 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 Eugene A. Cook on?: Eugene A. Cook 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).