Texas Business Court
Section 3 of 6SMU CGI's Texas Business Court vertical will publish on four axes — the docket, the bench, the opinions, and the developing jurisdictional doctrine. Each layer is built to be re-runnable and primary-source-backed.
Long-form source as of 2026-08-18
What we will track
Layer 01 · Docket
Every case docketed in every operational division, tagged by subject matter, amount in controversy, party type, and disposition. Searchable by company, by judge, and by issue. Cross-referenced to the reincorporation tracker for cases involving Texas-redomiciled firms.
Layer 02 · Bench
Background and prior-experience profile of every Business Court judge, plus a running case-load profile showing each judge's docket composition, ruling tendencies, and time-to-disposition statistics. The institutional analogue of what Westlaw Litigation Analytics provides for federal judges, scoped to the Business Court.
Layer 03 · Opinions
Every published Business Court opinion gets a dedicated explainer page — facts, procedural posture, holding, reasoning, and doctrinal significance. Each opinion is placed in the broader landscape of Delaware Chancery precedent on the same issue, with explicit treatment of where Texas and Delaware diverge.
Layer 04 · Doctrine
A running tracker of the developing jurisdictional doctrine — subject-matter scope under Gov. Code Ch. 25A, internal-affairs doctrine application, the TBOC opt-in mechanisms (§ 2.115, § 2.116), and the § 21.4161 pre-transaction independence determination. The doctrinal layer that distinguishes Texas's institutional design from Delaware's common-law approach.