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Supreme Court of Texas / Joined 1934 / Served to 1952

John H. Sharp

Justice, Supreme Court of Texas

John H. Sharp was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, who joined the court in 1934. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1874–1957
Tenure: 1934–1952 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1934	Supreme Court of Texas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Sharp authored 311 published opinions for the court (1930–1952), plus 14 dissents. Most cited: Southwest Battery Corp. v. Owen (341 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. 98 of these were attributed to Sharp 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
1938	Southwest Battery Corp. v. Owen	115 S.W.2d 1097	341
1935	Brown v. Humble Oil & Refining Co.	83 S.W.2d 935	280
1941	State v. Hale	146 S.W.2d 731	276
1940	Wichita Falls & Oklahoma Railway Co. v. Pepper	135 S.W.2d 79	261
1935	Dakan v. Dakan	83 S.W.2d 620	237
1939	Belo Corp. v. Thomas Blanton	129 S.W.2d 619	211
1952	Ford v. Panhandle & Santa Fe Railway Co.· Dissent†	252 S.W.2d 561	206
1943	McIver v. Gloria†	140 Tex. 566	204
1936	Scott Et Ux. v. Hewitt	90 S.W.2d 816	200
1939	Texas National Guard Armory Board. v. McCraw	126 S.W.2d 627	195
1941	Callahan v. Giles†	137 Tex. 571	192
1940	Ramirez v. Acker†	134 Tex. 647	191
1941	Citizens National Bank v. Texas & Pacific Railway Co.· Dissent	150 S.W.2d 1003	187
1951	City of Mason v. West Texas Utilities Co.	237 S.W.2d 273	184
1942	Cramer v. Sheppard†	140 Tex. 271	173

Showing the 15 most-cited of 328 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 John H. Sharp on?: John H. Sharp was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas.

Sources

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18 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).