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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Texas / Joined 1940 / Served to 1941

William Folsom Moore

Justice, Supreme Court of Texas

William Folsom Moore was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, who joined the court in 1940. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1868–1956
Tenure: 1940–1941 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1940	Supreme Court of Texas	–	–

Education

Washington and Lee University

Judicial Record

In our data, Moore authored 6 published opinions for the court (1878–1940). Most cited: Tri-City Fresh Water Supply District No. 2 v. Mann (158 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 Moore 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
1940	Tri-City Fresh Water Supply District No. 2 v. Mann†	135 Tex. 280	158
1940	Quinn v. Press†	135 Tex. 60	133
1940	Anglin v. Cisco Mortgage Loan Co.†	135 Tex. 188	85
1940	City of Galveston v. Mann†	135 Tex. 319	63
1940	Hartel v. Dishman	145 S.W.2d 865	51
1878	De Leon v. Manuel Trevino & Bro.	49 Tex. 88	42

Showing the 6 most-cited of 6 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 William Folsom Moore on?: William Folsom Moore was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas.

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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).