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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Texas / Joined 1982 / Served to 1989

Ted Robertson

Justice, Supreme Court of Texas

Ted Robertson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, who joined the court in 1982. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1921 · age 105
Tenure: 1982–1989 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1982	Supreme Court of Texas	–	–

Education

Mount St Mary's University

Judicial Record

In our data, Robertson authored 60 published opinions for the court (1983–1990), plus 18 dissents and 20 concurrences. Most cited: Texas Department of Human Services v. Boyd (2,120 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. 43 of these were attributed to Robertson 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
1987	Texas Department of Human Services v. Boyd	727 S.W.2d 531	2,120
1986	McGalliard v. Kuhlmann	722 S.W.2d 694	1,477
1984	Montgomery v. Kennedy	669 S.W.2d 309	1,052
1987	Reilly v. Rangers Management, Inc.· Dissent†	727 S.W.2d 527	538
1986	Jim Walter Homes, Inc. v. Reed	711 S.W.2d 617	516
1988	Herbert v. Herbert· Dissent†	754 S.W.2d 141	486
1985	Dyson v. Olin Corp.· Concurrence†	692 S.W.2d 456	419
1984	Leyendecker & Associates, Inc. v. Wechter	683 S.W.2d 369	363
1985	Abor v. Black· Dissent†	695 S.W.2d 564	346
1984	Nelson v. Krusen· Concurrence†	678 S.W.2d 918	325
1987	Barnett v. Aetna Life Insurance Co.	723 S.W.2d 663	321
1988	Cropper v. Caterpillar Tractor Co.· Dissent†	754 S.W.2d 646	316
1984	Hunt v. Bass· Concurrence†	664 S.W.2d 323	298
1988	Qantel Business Systems, Inc. v. Custom Controls Co.	761 S.W.2d 302	297
1987	Hurlbut v. Gulf Atlantic Life Insurance Co.· Separate†	749 S.W.2d 762	279

Showing the 15 most-cited of 100 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 Ted Robertson on?: Ted Robertson 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).