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Supreme Court of Texas / Joined 1965 / Served to 1985

Jack Pope

Justice, Supreme Court of Texas

Jack Pope was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, who joined the court in 1965. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1913 · age 113
Tenure: 1965–1985 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1965	Supreme Court of Texas	–	–

Education

Abilene Christian University
The University of Texas at Austin
Abilene Christian University
Pepperdine University
Mount St Mary's University
Oklahoma Christian University

Judicial Record

In our data, Pope authored 221 published opinions for the court (1965–1984), plus 54 dissents and 14 concurrences. Most cited: Kindred v. Con/Chem, Inc. (1,865 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. 84 of these were attributed to Pope 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	Kindred v. Con/Chem, Inc.	650 S.W.2d 61	1,865
1984	Duncan v. Cessna Aircraft Co.· Concurrence†	665 S.W.2d 414	847
1976	Wiley v. Spratlan	543 S.W.2d 349	594
1983	Massey v. Armco Steel Co.	652 S.W.2d 932	568
1979	Baker v. Goldsmith· Concurrence†	582 S.W.2d 404	469
1984	Richardson v. Green	677 S.W.2d 497	463
1979	Standard Fire Insurance Co. v. Reese	584 S.W.2d 835	415
1977	Eggemeyer v. Eggemeyer	554 S.W.2d 137	400
1966	C. & R. TRANSPORT, INC. v. Campbell· Dissent†	406 S.W.2d 191	392
1980	Steele v. City of Houston	603 S.W.2d 786	383
1980	State Bar of Tex. v. Heard· Dissent†	603 S.W.2d 829	354
1979	Stoner v. Massey· Dissent†	586 S.W.2d 843	351
1978	Parker v. Highland Park, Inc.	565 S.W.2d 512	348
1983	Sanchez v. Schindler· Dissent†	651 S.W.2d 249	318
1972	Webb v. Jorns	488 S.W.2d 407	303

Showing the 15 most-cited of 292 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 Jack Pope on?: Jack Pope was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas.

Sources

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20 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).