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Stefanie M. Helmuth v. Pennymac Loan Services, LLC
Opinion issued February 19, 2026 In The Court of Appeals For The First District of Texas ———————————— NO. 01-25-00697-C...
cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/11264194
public-domain-edict-of-government
2026-06-30T00:00:00
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opinion
tx
Argonaut Insurance Co. v. Allstate Insurance Co.
OPINION GILBERTO HINOJOSA, Justice. Appellant, Argonaut Insurance Company (“Argonaut”), challenges the trial court’s granting of a summary judgment in favor of appellee, Allstate Insurance Company (“Allstate”). Argonaut, an excess insurance carrier, sued Allstate, the primary insurance carri...
cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/2444415
public-domain-edict-of-government
2026-06-30T00:00:00
tx-txctapp13
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opinion
tx
Freeman v. State
CHRISTIAN, Judge. The offense is theft of chickens; the punishment, a fine of $100 and confinement in jail for 90 days. The record is before us without a statement of facts or bills of exception. No question is presented for review. The judgment is affirmed. PER CURIAM. The foregoing opinion of the Commiss...
cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/5008595
public-domain-edict-of-government
2026-06-30T00:00:00
tx-texcrimapp
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opinion
tx
Yates v. State
HAWKINS, Judge. Upon trial under an indictment charging assault with intent to murder appellant was convicted of an aggravated assault, and punishment assessed at a fine of $250 and six months’ imprisonment in the county jail. The record contains neither statement of facts nor bills of exception. In such conditi...
cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/5008596
public-domain-edict-of-government
2026-06-30T00:00:00
tx-texcrimapp
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opinion
tx
Carr v. State
MORROW, Presiding Judge. The offense is burglary; penalty assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for two years. Appellant entered a plea of guilty to the offense charged and testified as a witness upon the trial admitting his connection with the crime. No complaint of any matter of procedure has been pres...
cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/5008597
public-domain-edict-of-government
2026-06-30T00:00:00
tx-texcrimapp
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opinion
tx
Cunningham v. State
MORROW, Presiding Judge. The conviction is for unlawfully driving an automobile upon the public highway while intoxicated; penalty assessed at-confinement in the county jail and a fine of $100. The indictment appears regular and regularly presented. The record is before this court without a statement of facts or...
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opinion
tx
In Re Scott Mitchell Obeginski v. the State of Texas
In The Court of Appeals Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont __________________ NO. 09-26-00194-CV __________________ ...
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public-domain-edict-of-government
2026-06-30T00:00:00
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opinion
tx
Sheckles v. State
White, P. J. Besides the reasons given by the judge for his action in overruling the application for continuance, and which were perhaps amply sufficient in themselves, the want of probability of the truth of the matters proposed to be established by the absent witnesses, judged of in the light of the evidence add...
cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4905570
public-domain-edict-of-government
2026-06-30T00:00:00
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opinion
tx
Valdez v. State
HAWKINS, Judge. Appellant entered a plea of guilty to a charge of burglary and requested the court to submit the issue of suspended sentence. The jury returned a verdict of guilty upon appellant’s plea and fixed his punishment at confinement in the penitentiary , for two years, but failed to recommend that his sen...
cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/5008600
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2026-06-30T00:00:00
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opinion
tx
Thomas Todd Large v. Phillipe Cras
In The Court of Appeals Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont __________________ NO. 09-24-00333-CV __________________ ...
cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/11337855
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2026-06-30T00:00:00
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opinion
tx
Intec Systems, Inc. v. Lowrey
OPINION Opinion by Justice O’NEILL. Intec Systems, Inc. d/b/a Computer Tech (Intec) appeals a bench trial judgment in a breach of contract suit awarding former sales representative John Lowrey (Lowrey) a portion of unpaid sales commissions. In eight issues, Intec argues the judgment is erro...
cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/1394120
public-domain-edict-of-government
2026-06-30T00:00:00
tx-txctapp5
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opinion
tx
Scoma v. State
KRUEGER, Judge. Conviction is for tampering with an automobile; punishment is assessed at confinement in the county jail for a period of three months. The record is before us without a statement of facts or bill of exceptions. The complaint and information are sufficient to charge the offense and all procedural ...
cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/5008601
public-domain-edict-of-government
2026-06-30T00:00:00
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1938-12-14T00:00:00
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opinion
tx
Kennecia Williams v. SPCP Reese Owner, LLC
In the Court of Appeals Second Appellate District of Texas at Fort Worth ___________________________ No. 02-25-00372-CV ___________________________ KENNECIA WILLIAMS, Appellant V. SPCP REESE OWNER, LLC, Appellee On Appeal from County Cour...
cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/11264177
public-domain-edict-of-government
2026-06-30T00:00:00
tx-txctapp2
2026-02-19T00:00:00
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opinion
tx
National Surety Co. v. State Trust & Savings Bank
LOONEY, J. (dissenting). I am unable to agree to the disposition of the case made by the majority, for the reasons which I will now state. The majority opinion gives a full statement of the ease, the material facts involved, the propositions urged by appellant for reversal, and counter propositions urged by appe...
cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/5001545
public-domain-edict-of-government
2026-06-30T00:00:00
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1929-04-01T00:00:00
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opinion
tx
Weis v. State
CHRISTIAN, J. The offense is selling intoxicating liquor; the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for one year. No statement of facts or bills of exception appear in the record. No question is presented for review. The judgment is affirmed. PER CURIAM. The foregoing opinion of the Commission of Appeal...
cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/5001567
public-domain-edict-of-government
2026-06-30T00:00:00
tx-texcrimapp
1929-05-15T00:00:00
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db67bc5da1f7651e
opinion
tx
Robinson v. State
MARTIN, J. Offense, the unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor for the purpose of sale; penalty, two years in the penitentiary. No bill of exception or statement of facts appears in the record, and an examination of same discloses no question presented for review. The judgment is affirmed. EER CURIAM. Th...
cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/5001584
public-domain-edict-of-government
2026-06-30T00:00:00
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opinion
tx
In the Interest of C.B., a Child v. the State of Texas
In the Court of Appeals Second Appellate District of Texas at Fort Worth ___________________________ No. 02-25-00733-CV ___________________________ IN THE INTEREST OF C.B., A CHILD On Appeal from the 481st District Court Denton County, Texas Trial...
cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/11264179
public-domain-edict-of-government
2026-06-30T00:00:00
tx-txctapp2
2026-02-19T00:00:00
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opinion
tx
Royal v. State
DATTIMORE, J. Conviction for embezzlement ; punishment, two years in the penitentiary. We find in the record an affidavit in proper form by appellant, asking that he be permitted to withdraw this 'appeal. The request is granted, and the appeal is dismissed.
cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/5001585
public-domain-edict-of-government
2026-06-30T00:00:00
tx-texcrimapp
1929-05-29T00:00:00
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opinion
tx
Ware v. State
MARTIN, J. Offense, the willful refusal to provide for the support of minor children; penalty, a fine of $100 and 90 days in the county jail. No bill of exception or statement of facts appears in the record, and an examination of same discloses no'question presented fo'r review. The judgment is affirmed. PER...
cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/5001586
public-domain-edict-of-government
2026-06-30T00:00:00
tx-texcrimapp
1929-05-22T00:00:00
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opinion
tx
in Re Eric Carl Thrasher, Relator
In The Court of Appeals Seventh District of Texas at Amarillo No. 07-19-00418-CV IN RE ERIC CARL THRASHER, RELATOR OPINION ON ORIGINAL PROCEEDING FOR WRIT OF MANDA...
cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4468888
public-domain-edict-of-government
2026-06-30T00:00:00
tx-txctapp7
2019-12-30T00:00:00
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73f3e9b3b27a8a2b
opinion
tx
Oscar Gonzalez v. Santiago Lopez D/B/A Lopez Carpets
NUMBER 13-22-00216-CV COURT OF APPEALS THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS CORPUS CHRISTI – EDINBURG OSCAR GONZALEZ, Appellant, v. S...
cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/9500064
public-domain-edict-of-government
2026-06-30T00:00:00
tx-txctapp13
2023-08-03T00:00:00
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opinion
tx
Terry Dwight Turner v. the State of Texas
In The Court of Appeals Sixth Appellate District of Texas at Texarkana No. 06-21-00034-CR TERRY DWIGHT TURNER, Appellant V...
cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/6321401
public-domain-edict-of-government
2026-06-30T00:00:00
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opinion
tx
In Re Nicholas Kreines, David P. Ryan, and Liberty Mineral Partners LLC v. the State of Texas
Petition for Writ of Mandamus Denied and Memorandum Opinion Issued February 18, 2026. In The Fifteenth Court of Appeals ____________ NO. 15-26-00056-CV _______...
cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/11264176
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2026-06-30T00:00:00
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opinion
tx
Development Investment Corporation v. Diversa, Inc.
DAVIS, Justice. A summary judgment case. Plaintiff-appellant, Development Investment .Corporation, hereinafter referred to as plaintiff, or DIC, sued defendant-appellee Diversa, Inc., hereinafter referred to as defendant, or Diversa, for the value of services rendered by plaintiff to defendant pursuant t...
cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/2419202
public-domain-edict-of-government
2026-06-30T00:00:00
tx-texapp
1965-08-24T00:00:00
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opinion
tx
Reid v. State
White, P. J. The main objection urged in the motion in arrest of judgment against the complaint appears hypercritical. We are of opinion an aggravated assault is sufficiently charged. The circumstance of aggravation laid in the information was, that the . assault was committed “with a deadly weapon.” The county ...
cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4905610
public-domain-edict-of-government
2026-06-30T00:00:00
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Texas Case Law

Code & tools: github.com/docketx — legal-scrambler pseudonymises a case file on your own hardware before a frontier model sees it; claude-for-legal is the Claude Code plugin (docketx-open-law) that loads these datasets and checks citations against them.

Source & credit — Free Law Project / CourtListener

Every opinion in this dataset comes from the Free Law Project / CourtListener bulk export of 2026-06-30 (10,798,347 opinions). CourtListener gathered, cleaned, deduplicated and published that record; Free Law Project — the 501(c)(3) non-profit behind it, building free public access to American law since 2010 — pays for it. We sliced and reformatted; they did the hard part. Go to the source: https://www.courtlistener.com.

Free Law Project is a non-profit, and it is worth supporting: https://free.law/donate/. If this data is useful to you, credit Free Law Project and CourtListener too, and consider going straight to the source: CourtListener runs its own API and MCP server.

Full text of 664,012 Texas appellate opinion documents from the public record. The base slice is 662,717 documents from the Free Law Project / CourtListener bulk export of 2026-06-30. data/tx-delta-2026-06-27-to-2026-09-11.jsonl.gz ADDS 1,295 opinions (all types) filed after that snapshot, harvested directly from CourtListener's own API and object storage — added 2026-09-14.

Court coverage (20 court ids, explicit allowlist — never prefix-matched): tex, texapp, texcrimapp, txctapp1, txctapp10, txctapp11, txctapp12, txctapp13, txctapp13A, txctapp13B, txctapp14, txctapp15, txctapp2, txctapp3, txctapp4, txctapp5, txctapp6, txctapp7, txctapp8, txctapp9.

Lead opinions and separate opinions; documents under 1 characters excluded.

Coverage is not uniform — three courts of appeals stop early

The court allowlist above says which courts are INCLUDED. It does not say how current each one is, and three of them are far behind. Measured 2026-09-13:

court documents newest opinion held opinions in 2026
txctapp5 Fifth COA (Dallas) 38,442 2025-08-26 0
txctapp14 Fourteenth COA (Houston) 36,357 2024-12-06 0
txctapp12 Twelfth COA (Tyler) 11,858 2024-11-27 0
txctapp1 First COA (Houston) (comparison) 40,074 2026-06-26 526

14.1% of this dataset belongs to courts that have contributed essentially nothing for ten to nineteen months, and Dallas and Houston-14 cover the two largest metropolitan areas in Texas. Nothing returned from those courts for a recent period is a gap in the record, not an absence of authority.

The gap is upstream: the same three courts stop at the same dates in CourtListener's own 2026-06-30 bulk export and in its live API, both checked directly, so a refresh will not close it. The shape is a decay through late 2024 rather than a clean edge, which looks like a scraper failing rather than a policy change — worth reporting to Free Law Project if you work with Texas appellate data.

662,717 here, 615,391 in the served index — why the two numbers differ

DocketRouter's API says it searches 615,391 Texas opinion documents while this dataset publishes 662,717. Both are measured and they count different things, so here is the arithmetic in full (taken from this dataset's own slice.manifest.json and from the served index, 2026-09-11):

documents
Served index (010combined 461,325 + 020lead 154,066) 615,391
Separately filed opinions this dataset adds — dissents 12,265, rehearings 10,413, addenda 7,935, concurrences 6,261, concurrences in part 952, plus remittiturs, plurality and unanimous oddments 38,008
Combined/lead documents below the served build's 500-character floor 9,318
This dataset 662,717

615,391 + 38,008 + 9,318 = 662,717. The served index deliberately holds the documents that carry the court's holding; this dataset holds the whole opinion record, dissents and all. Slice sha256 d41113443112bee822a266a7ee5745311ee6c9da292f0025c291e47937cf4a07 (also in slice.manifest.json).

Composition

Measured on this exact slice: 469,627 documents (70.9%) carry 2,000+ characters of text, 190,256 (28.7%) carry 200-1,999, and 2,834 (0.4%) are under 200 characters. The short ones are real records, not errors: certiorari denials, one-line orders, and judgment entries. They are kept deliberately (min_chars = 1) so this is the complete public record rather than a filtered subset. Filter on len(text) if you want only substantive opinions.

Format

Rows follow docketx record v1 (one opinion per line): id, doc_type, jurisdiction, title, text, source, license, retrieved_at, plus citation, court, date, and extra (CourtListener opinion/cluster ids, opinion type). The same format is used across every docketx dataset.

Provenance and license

Judicial opinions are edicts of government: uncopyrightable works of the public domain (Banks v. Manchester, 128 U.S. 244 (1888); Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 590 U.S. 255 (2020)). This packaging is released under CC0 1.0. Source: CourtListener bulk export (2026-06-30), Free Law Project — https://free.law. This dataset redistributes public-domain court text; it adds no annotation and asserts no rights.

Load it

from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("docketx/us-caselaw-tx")

Part of the DocketRouter legal corpora: https://huggingface.co/docketx

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