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Supreme Court of Texas / Joined 1945 / Served to 1961

J E. Hickman

Justice, Supreme Court of Texas

J E. Hickman was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, who joined the court in 1945. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1883–1962
Tenure: 1945–1961 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1945	Supreme Court of Texas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hickman authored 341 published opinions for the court (1935–1961), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Craddock v. Sunshine Bus Lines, Inc. (1,627 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. 40 of these were attributed to Hickman 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
1939	Craddock v. Sunshine Bus Lines, Inc.	133 S.W.2d 124	1,627
1958	Tobin v. Garcia†	159 Tex. 58	357
1952	Texas Foundaries, Inc. v. International Molders & Foundry Workers Union	248 S.W.2d 460	342
1950	Carle v. Carle	234 S.W.2d 1002	337
1956	Wagner v. Warnasch	295 S.W.2d 890	288
1952	Stewart v. Basey	245 S.W.2d 484	249
1948	Hood v. Texas Indemnity Insurance	209 S.W.2d 345	195
1950	Sanders v. Harder	227 S.W.2d 206	186
1937	Hurt v. Cooper	110 S.W.2d 896	185
1938	Johnson v. Peckham	120 S.W.2d 786	179
1957	Bevil v. Johnson	307 S.W.2d 85	175
1935	Bradshaw v. Baylor University	84 S.W.2d 703	167
1944	MacDonald v. Follett	180 S.W.2d 334	131
1954	Tigner v. First Nat. Bank of Angleton	264 S.W.2d 85	130
1945	City of San Angelo v. Boehme Bakery	190 S.W.2d 67	123

Showing the 15 most-cited of 343 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 J E. Hickman on?: J E. Hickman was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas.

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16 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).