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The Texas Business Court Codex

The Texas Business Court has issued 134 opinions across five operational divisions since it opened on September 1, 2024 — and 81 of the 134 coded opinions resolved on a threshold ground rather than the merits. The court’s first two years and one month trace a doctrinal map of who gets in, what statute controls, and how often the Court reaches the merits. This Codex catalogs every opinion in the register and every writing judge; disposition coding is complete through 2026 Tex. Bus. 71; see methodology & coverage.

SMU Dallas Hall
By Shane Goodwin, Ph.D., LL.M.
Executive Director, SMU Corporate Governance Initiative · Professor of Practice, Department of Finance, SMU Cox · Adjunct Professor, SMU Dedman Law

txcourts.gov/businesscourt/opinions · Last refreshed October 3, 2026

All opinions (matrix) See the doctrinal flow Explore Clean-Co § 25A.004(d) How to cite

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The Texas Business Court Codex

Every opinion in the court's register, coded by division, posture, ruling, and doctrine — and read from the signed PDFs.

The Codex

Nine ways into the corpus

01 Headline finding How often the court resolves on a threshold ground instead of the merits. Open → 02 Division → posture → ruling Where a case enters, how it is postured, and how it comes out. Open → 03 Volume by division and month Opinion output over the court's first two years. Open → 04 Claims × motion type Which claims get adjudicated on which motions. Open → 05 Doctrine deep dive Clean-Co Systems and the springing-agreement question under § 25A.004(d). Open → 06 The bench Every writing judge, division by division. Open → 07 Repeat appearances Parties and firms that come back. Open → 08 The full corpus Filter, sort, and search every coded opinion. Open → 09 Glossary & how to cite Every term in plain English and in academic detail. Open →

Everything on one page → the long-form Codex, unchanged