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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Texas / Joined 1949 / Served to 1950

R.H. Harvey

Justice, Supreme Court of Texas

R.H. Harvey was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, who joined the court in 1949. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1893–1950
Tenure: 1949–1950 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1949	Supreme Court of Texas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Harvey authored 162 published opinions for the court (1926–1950). Most cited: Texas Highway Department v. Weber (118 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. 4 of these were attributed to Harvey 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
1949	Texas Highway Department v. Weber†	147 Tex. 628	118
1950	Pasadena State Bank v. Isaac	228 S.W.2d 127	110
1942	Callahan v. Staples	161 S.W.2d 489	105
1929	Haynes v. J. F. Radford Grocery Company	14 S.W.2d 811	83
1936	Vann v. Bowie Sewerage Co., Inc.	90 S.W.2d 561	78
1931	Berry v. Pierce Petroleum Corporation	39 S.W.2d 824	72
1942	Petroleum Producers Co. v. Steffens	162 S.W.2d 698	68
1929	Bradley v. Trinity State Bank	14 S.W.2d 810	68
1932	Texas-Louisiana Power Co. v. Wells	48 S.W.2d 978	59
1928	Allen v. Fisher	9 S.W.2d 731	55
1928	Hall Music Co. v. Robertson	1 S.W.2d 857	55
1938	West Production Co. v. Kahanek	121 S.W.2d 328	53
1938	Stevenson v. Blake	113 S.W.2d 525	50
1934	First Natl. Bank in Dallas v. Pierce	69 S.W.2d 756	50
1936	Morris-Buick Co. v. Davis	91 S.W.2d 313	45

Showing the 15 most-cited of 163 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 R.H. Harvey on?: R.H. Harvey was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas.

Sources

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1 year 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).