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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Texas / Joined 1951 / Served to 1956

Will Wilson

Justice, Supreme Court of Texas

Will Wilson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, who joined the court in 1951. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1912–2005
Tenure: 1951–1956 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1951	Supreme Court of Texas	–	–

Education

University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus
Southern Methodist University

Judicial Record

In our data, Wilson authored 45 published opinions for the court (1951–1956), plus 19 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Burt v. Lochausen (347 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. 35 of these were attributed to Wilson 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
1952	Burt v. Lochausen· Concurrence†	249 S.W.2d 194	347
1951	City of Amarillo v. Hancock	239 S.W.2d 788	199
1955	Taylor v. Meek	276 S.W.2d 787	172
1955	Renwar Oil Corporation v. Lancaster	276 S.W.2d 774	134
1951	Lane v. Fair Stores, Inc.· Dissent†	243 S.W.2d 683	129
1951	Snyder v. Pitts	241 S.W.2d 136	120
1952	Lewis v. TEXAS EMPLOYERS'INS. ASS'N	246 S.W.2d 599	103
1955	Klein v. Century Lloyds· Concurrence†	275 S.W.2d 95	102
1952	Fort Worth Lloyds v. Haygood· Dissent†	246 S.W.2d 865	100
1951	Wood v. Kane Boiler Works, Inc.· Dissent†	238 S.W.2d 172	100
1951	Providence Washington Insurance v. Proffitt· Dissent†	239 S.W.2d 379	99
1954	Goforth v. Alvey· Dissent†	271 S.W.2d 404	92
1953	Knollhoff v. Norris· Dissent†	256 S.W.2d 79	80
1956	Railroad Commission v. Houston Natural Gas Corp.†	155 Tex. 502	78
1954	Bennett v. Brown County Water Improvement District No. One· Dissent†	272 S.W.2d 498	77

Showing the 15 most-cited of 73 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 Will Wilson on?: Will Wilson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas.

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5 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).