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Supreme Court of Texas / Joined 1971 / Served to 1978

Price Daniel Sr.

Justice, Supreme Court of Texas

Price Daniel Sr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, who joined the court in 1971. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1910–1988
Tenure: 1971–1978 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1971	Supreme Court of Texas	–	–

Education

Baylor University
Baylor University

Judicial Record

In our data, Daniel authored 73 published opinions for the court (1971–1978), plus 12 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Mansfield State Bank v. Cohn (1,083 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. 21 of these were attributed to Daniel 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
1978	Mansfield State Bank v. Cohn· Dissent†	573 S.W.2d 181	1,083
1975	Rourke v. Garza· Dissent†	530 S.W.2d 794	342
1974	Mobil Chemical Company v. Bell· Concurrence†	517 S.W.2d 245	329
1971	Waisath v. Lack's Stores, Inc.	474 S.W.2d 444	306
1975	Wilcox v. St. Mary's University of San Antonio, Inc.	531 S.W.2d 589	280
1976	Industrial Foundation of the South v. Texas Industrial Accident Board· Concurrence†	540 S.W.2d 668	247
1976	Cearley v. Cearley	544 S.W.2d 661	243
1977	Missouri Pacific Railroad v. American Statesman	552 S.W.2d 99	231
1973	Dikeman v. Snell	490 S.W.2d 183	215
1971	Sullivan v. Barnett	471 S.W.2d 39	183
1978	Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Stahl Petroleum Co.	569 S.W.2d 480	165
1976	Ramsay v. Maryland American General Insurance Co.	533 S.W.2d 344	163
1974	Custom Leasing, Inc. v. Texas Bank & Trust Co. of Dallas	516 S.W.2d 138	153
1978	Mid Continent Aircraft Corp. v. Curry County Spraying Service, Inc.	572 S.W.2d 308	149
1971	Felderhoff v. Felderhoff	473 S.W.2d 928	124

Showing the 15 most-cited of 93 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 Price Daniel Sr. on?: Price Daniel Sr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas.

Sources

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7 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).