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Supreme Court of Texas / Joined 1953 / Served to 1965

Frank P. Culver Jr.

Justice, Supreme Court of Texas

Frank P. Culver Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, who joined the court in 1953. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1889 · age 137
Tenure: 1953–1965 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1953	Supreme Court of Texas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Culver authored 141 published opinions for the court (1953–1964), plus 27 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Long v. Knox (213 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. 38 of these were attributed to Culver 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	Long v. Knox	291 S.W.2d 292	213
1956	Dallas Railway & Terminal Company v. Gossett· Dissent†	294 S.W.2d 377	208
1962	Crofts v. Court of Civil Appeals for the Eighth Supreme Judicial District· Dissent†	362 S.W.2d 101	179
1963	Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Bliss	368 S.W.2d 594	148
1954	Smith v. Bolin· Dissent†	271 S.W.2d 93	147
1958	State of California, Department of Mental Hygiene v. Copus	309 S.W.2d 227	141
1961	State v. Lain· Dissent†	349 S.W.2d 579	140
1956	Brown v. Cole	291 S.W.2d 704	130
1964	Woodard v. Southwest States, Inc.	384 S.W.2d 674	122
1960	Deramus v. Thornton	333 S.W.2d 824	122
1957	Courseview, Inc. v. Phillips Petroleum Co.· Dissent†	158 Tex. 397	117
1955	Gates v. Asher	280 S.W.2d 247	116
1962	Denton County v. Brammer· Concurrence†	361 S.W.2d 198	112
1961	Pritchard & Abbott v. McKenna	350 S.W.2d 333	112
1962	St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co. v. Murphree· Dissent†	357 S.W.2d 744	106

Showing the 15 most-cited of 169 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 Frank P. Culver Jr. on?: Frank P. Culver Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas.

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12 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).