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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Texas / Joined 1950 / Served to 1972

Robert W. Calvert

Justice, Supreme Court of Texas

Robert W. Calvert was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, who joined the court in 1950. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1905–1994
Tenure: 1950–1972 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1950	Supreme Court of Texas	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Calvert authored 259 published opinions for the court (1950–1972), plus 50 dissents and 24 concurrences. Most cited: Gibbs v. General Motors Corporation (1,504 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. 91 of these were attributed to Calvert 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
1970	Gibbs v. General Motors Corporation	450 S.W.2d 827	1,504
1966	North East Independent School District v. Aldridge	400 S.W.2d 893	868
1972	Swilley v. Hughes	488 S.W.2d 64	826
1953	Transport Co. of Texas v. Robertson Transports	261 S.W.2d 549	580
1950	Renfro Drug Co. v. Lewis	235 S.W.2d 609	567
1951	Universal C. I. T. Credit Corp. v. Daniel	243 S.W.2d 154	553
1962	Thigpen v. Locke· Dissent†	363 S.W.2d 247	510
1966	Ivy v. Carrell	407 S.W.2d 212	478
1971	Hidalgo v. Surety Savings and Loan Association	462 S.W.2d 540	428
1970	Seideneck v. Cal Bayreuther Associates	451 S.W.2d 752	405
1972	\	492 S.W.2d 934	397
1966	C. & R. TRANSPORT, INC. v. Campbell	406 S.W.2d 191	392
1968	Schlumberger Well Surveying Corp. v. Nortex Oil & Gas Corp.	435 S.W.2d 854	387
1957	Biggers v. Continental Bus System, Inc.	303 S.W.2d 359	338
1972	Morrow v. Shotwell	477 S.W.2d 538	305

Showing the 15 most-cited of 334 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 Robert W. Calvert on?: Robert W. Calvert was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas.

Sources

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22 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).