Legal Research Process

Available on Hein and Westlaw. Includes selective, irregular case summaries from 5th Circuit, Texas Supreme Court, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, and state courts of appeals.

Weekly email of court orders and summaries, usually sent out on Fridays. Sign up available on court's homepage. Also provided via Twitter @SupremeCourt_TX

Court authored case summaries--shorter than those in Texas Supreme Court Journal. Survey covers cases from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30 of following year; organized by subject and also includes alphabetical case index. Part of TexasBarCLE Annual Litigation Update Institute (available in print at KFT1738 .L57). Republished in online only "Best of" issue of the Advocate: State Bar Litigation Section Report.

PDF; on court's website, under "Practice Before the Court."

Orders released via Twitter, usually on a weekly basis. Run by a lawyer, Don Cruse.

Blog on Texas appellate law from Texas appellate lawyer Mike Northrup. Features annual Texas Supreme Court statistics.

Newsletter on SCOTX and other Texas appellate courts. From Adam Shniderman, appellate lawyer in private practice in Dallas and, inter alia, former SCOTX clerk.

Each week, TDCAA staff members summarize the most important cases from Texas and federal criminal courts and provide insightful commentary on how those cases could impact the criminal justice system as well as a link to the opinions. Archives date back to 2017, with Can sign up to receive weekly Case Summaries Newsletter.

Recurring feature of recent case summaries in journal from the Litigation Section of the State Bar of Texas. Available on HeinOnline and Westlaw. More up to date on Westlaw. PDF only available on Hein.

Legal advocacy organization of Texas business community that offers case summaries via website and newsletter, along with occasional articles.

find those summaries on the Court's website by clicking on the home page link called "About the Court," and then clicking on the resulting link called "Case Summaries." Typically, the opinions the Court chooses for its summaries are those it has designated as "Opinions," as compared to "Memorandum Opinions." So, if you find yourself working with a reported decision which the Court has designated as an "Opinion," you might want to check out the Court's Case Summary on that Opinion.

If you go to his newsletter there’s a link on top to “Join Our Email List”.

New opinions, judgments, and orders. Usually once a week.

Tweets when opinions are released, usually multiple times a week.

Blog from lawyer David Coale on commercial litigation in the 5th Court of Appeals (Dallas). 600 Hemphill blog on commercial litigation in the Texas Supreme Court was rolled into this blog.

Lawyer blog on practice in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas; and intellectual property litigation in all Texas federal courts, with special emphasis on patent litigation.

Save as alert simple keyword search for example negligen! in TX case law database, which would pick up published and unpublished cases. Or narrow to just published cases by doing an synopsis and digest field search for negligen! Could also do a narrower advanced search for a particular headnote like adv: 272k1204 and then save as alert.