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Supreme Court of Texas / Joined 1935 / Served to 1944

Richard Critz

Justice, Supreme Court of Texas

Richard Critz was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, who joined the court in 1935. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1877–1959
Tenure: 1935–1944 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1935	Supreme Court of Texas	–	–

Education

Southwestern University
Georgetown University

Judicial Record

In our data, Critz authored 346 published opinions for the court (1927–1944), plus 6 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: G. A. Stowers Furniture Co. v. American Indemnity Co. (472 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. 96 of these were attributed to Critz 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
1929	G. A. Stowers Furniture Co. v. American Indemnity Co.	15 S.W.2d 544	472
1942	Kinzbach Tool Co. v. Corbett-Wallace Corp.	160 S.W.2d 509	368
1939	Gulf Land Co. v. Atlantic Refining Co.	131 S.W.2d 73	361
1943	Fambrough v. Wagley†	140 Tex. 577	347
1943	Barrington v. Duncan†	140 Tex. 510	260
1942	Cochran v. Wool Growers Central Storage Co.†	140 Tex. 184	237
1941	McAfee v. Travis Gas Corp.†	137 Tex. 314	215
1942	Reagan v. Guardian Life Insurance†	140 Tex. 105	214
1942	Veal v. Thomason	159 S.W.2d 472	208
1939	Texas National Guard Armory Board. v. McCraw· Dissent	126 S.W.2d 627	195
1942	Jacob E. Decker & Sons, Inc. v. Capps· Concurrence	164 S.W.2d 828	193
1939	Carey v. Pure Distributing Corp.	124 S.W.2d 847	191
1941	Citizens National Bank v. Texas & Pacific Railway Co.	150 S.W.2d 1003	187
1941	Lewis v. East Texas Finance Co.	146 S.W.2d 977	171
1941	Lone Star Gas Co. v. State†	137 Tex. 279	165

Showing the 15 most-cited of 357 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 Richard Critz on?: Richard Critz was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas.

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9 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).