Texas has limited jurisdiction courts, county trial courts, state trial courts, and appellate courts. The latter consist of the Courts of Appeals, Court of Criminal Appeals, and the Texas Supreme Court.
Limited jurisdiction courts include Justice Courts and Municipal Courts. Justice Courts handle civil cases up to $10,000, and small claims cases. Municipal Courts handle ordinance violations, and civil cases. Both handle magistrate functions and lesser misdemeanors.
The county trial courts include Constitutional County Courts, County Courts at Law, and Statutory Probate Courts. Constitutional County Courts oversee civil cases up to $10,000, probate cases, serious misdemeanors, juvenile cases, and appeals. County Courts at Law handle civil cases up to $100,000, criminal, cases, and appellate actions. Statutory Probate Courts have original and exclusive jurisdiction over their counties' probate matters, guardianship cases, and mental health commitments.
The state trial courts are District Courts. They are responsible for civil, divorce, land title, felony, and juvenile cases.
Listed below you''ll find the court record and docket indexes we've located for Texas, including the Texas Supreme Court, Court of Criminal Appeals, all of the regional Court of Appeals case record and opinions records, United States District and Bankruptcy PACER courts, and Texas County District and Court of Law records.
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| Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Texas Court of Criminal Appeals case record search. |
| Texas Supreme Court Supreme Court of Texas court calendar, oral arguments, administrative orders, case search, document search, and orders & opinions. |
| U.S. Bankruptcy Court | Eastern District Pay Site United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Texas bankruptcy court records. Requires a PACER account. |
| U.S. Bankruptcy Court | Northern District Pay Site U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas court records. Requires a PACER account. |
| U.S. Bankruptcy Court | Southern District Pay Site Southern District of Texas U.S. Bankruptcy Court records. Requires a PACER account. |
| U.S. Bankruptcy Court | Western District Pay Site U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Texas case records and document filing system. Requires a PACER account. |
| U.S. District Court | Eastern District Pay Site U.S. Eastern District Court of Texas civil & criminal court records by case number, party name, filing date, or last update. Provides dockets and documents. |
| U.S. District Court | Eastern District Pay Site U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas court records. Requires a PACER account. |
| U.S. District Court | Northern District Pay Site U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas PACER civil and criminal court search and online documents. PACER account required. |
| U.S. District Court | Southern District Pay Site U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas criminal and civil court records. PACER account required. |
| * Texas 1 | First Court of Appeals Case record and Opinion searches for the Texas First Court of Appeals in Houston, including Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend, Galveston, Grimes, Harris, Waller, and Washington Counties. |
| * Texas 10 | Tenth Court of Appeals Case record and Opinion searches for the Texas Tenth Court of Appeals in Waco, including Bosque, Brazos, Burleson, Coryell, Ellis, Falls, Freestone, Hamilton, Hill, Johnson, Leon, Limestone, Madison, McLennan, Navarro, Robertson, Somervell, and Walker Counties. |
| * Texas 11 | Eleventh Court of Appeals Case record and Opinion searches for the Texas Eleventh Court of Appeals in Eastland, including Baylor, Borden, Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, Dawson, Eastland, Ector, Erath, Fisher, Gaines, Glasscock, Haskell, Howard, Jones, Knox, Martin, Midland, Mitchell, Nolan, Palo Pinto, Scurry, Shackelford, Stephens, Stonewall, Taylor, and Throckmorton Counties. |
| * Texas 12 | Twelfth Court of Appeals Case record and Opinion searches for the Twelfth Eleventh Court of Appeals in Tyler, including Anderson, Angelina, Cherokee, Gregg, Henderson, Houston, Nacogdoches, Rains, Rusk, Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby, Smith, Trinity, Upshur, Van Zandt, and Wood Counties. |
| * Texas 13 | Thirteenth Court of Appeals Case record and Opinion searches for the Thirteenth Eleventh Court of Appeals in Corpus Christi and Edinburg, including Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, Cameron, De Witt, Goliad, Gonzales, Hidalgo, Jackson, Kenedy, Kleberg, Lavaca, Live Oak, Matagorda, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio, Victoria, Wharton, and Willacy Counties. |
| * Texas 14 | Fourteenth Court of Appeals Case record and Opinion searches for the Fourteenth Eleventh Court of Appeals in Houston, including Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend, Galveston, Grimes, Harris, Waller, and Washington Counties. |
| * Texas 2 | Second Court of Appeals Case record and Opinion searches for the Texas Second Court of Appeals in Fort Worth, including Archer, Clay, Cooke, Denton, Hood, Jack, Montague, Parker, Tarrant, Wichita, Wise, and Young Counties. |
| * Texas 3 | Third Court of Appeals Case record and Opinion searches for the Texas Third Court of Appeals in Austin, including Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell, Coke, Comal, Concho, Fayette, Hays, Irion, Lampasas, Lee, Llano, McCulloch, Milam, Mills, Runnels, San Saba, Schleicher, Sterling, Tom Green, Travis, and Williamson Counties. |
| * Texas 4 | Fourth Court of Appeals Case record and Opinion searches for the Texas Fourth Court of Appeals in San Antonio, including Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Brooks, Dimmit, Duval, Edwards, Frio, Gillespie, Guadalupe, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, Karnes, Kendall, Kerr, Kimble, Kinney, La Salle, Mason, Maverick, McMullen, Medina, Menard, Real, Starr, Sutton, Uvalde, Val Verde, Webb, Wilson, Zapata, and Zavala Counties. |
| * Texas 5 | Fifth Court of Appeals Case record and Opinion searches for the Texas Fifth Court of Appeals in Dallas, including Collin, Dallas, Grayson, Hunt, Kaufman, and Rockwall Counties. |
| * Texas 7 | Seventh Court of Appeals Case records and Opinions for the Texas Seventh Court of Appeals in Amarillo including Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Collingsworth, Cottle, Crosby, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Dickens, Donley, Floyd, Foard, Garza, Gray, Hale, Hall, Hansford, Hardeman, Hartley, Hemphill, Hockley, Hutchinson, Kent, King, Lamb, Lipscomb, Lubbock, Lynn, Moore, Motley, Ochiltree, Oldham, Parmer, Potter, Randall, Roberts, Sherman, Swisher, Terry, Wheeler, Wilbarger, and Yoakum Counties. |
| * Texas 8 | Eighth Court of Appeals Case record and Opinion searches for the Texas Eighth Court of Appeals in El Paso, including Andrews, Brewster, Crane, Crockett, Culberson, El Paso, Hudspeth, Jeff Davis, Loving, Pecos, Presidio, Reagan, Reeves, Terrell, Upton, Ward, and Winkler Counties. |
| * Texas 9 | 9th Court of Appeals Case record and Opinion searches for the Texas Ninth Court of Appeals in Beaumont, including Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Liberty, Montgomery, Newton, Orange, Polk, San Jacinto, and Tyler Counties. |
| Alvin Court Records Search the City of Alvin, Texas Municipal Court Records by citation #, court docket #, name, date of birth, or drivers license number. |
| Angelina County Court case search for Angelina County, including court calendars and civil, criminal, family, and probate court records. |
| Bandera County | Court Records Bandera County District and County Court records. Subscription required. |
| Bee County | District Court Records Bee County District Court records & document images from iDocket. Requires subscription. |
| Bexar County | District & County Courts Records Civil and criminal court record searches from the Bexar County District Clerk and County Clerk. |
| Brazoria County Brazoria County court records and court calendar. |
| Brazoria County Court Records Search Brazoria County, Texas court records (civil, criminal, traffic, probate, tax court). First search is free. Additional searches require a pay subscription. |
| Cameron County | Court Records Subscription access to Cameron County court records. |
| Carrollton Traffic Tickets Use this Carrollton, Texas Municipal Court service to search for and pay traffic tickets online. |
| Castro County | 242nd District Court Dockets 242nd District Court dockets for Swisher, Hale, and Castro counties. |
| Chambers County Court Records - Criminal Register (no charge) with the Chambers County, Texas Clerk of the District Court to search Chambers County, Texas criminal court records. |
| Cherokee County Court Records Cherokee County, Texas court record search (criminal, civil, traffic, probate, tax court). The first search is free with a Basic Access registration. |
| Collin County Collin County court case query. Search individual case types or courts for civil, family, criminal, Justice Court, and Probate case records. |
| Collin County Case Records | Combined Collin County District, County Court at Law, Probate, Justice Courts combined records. |
| Comal County Courts Civil, criminal, Justice of the Peace (JP), family, and probate court records in Comal County. |
| Dallas County Civil, criminal, family and probate court records from the Dallas County Clerk and District Clerk. |
| Denton County Denton County Court at Law, District Court, Probate Court, County Court, and Justice of the Peace (JP) court records and calendars. |
| El Paso County El Paso County court records, including civil, criminal, family, probate, and guardianship records. |
| El Paso County Court Records Search El Paso County, Texas court records (all the classics here: criminal, civil, traffic, probate, and tax court). First search is free. Additional searches require paid subscription. |
| Ellis County Civil, criminal, and probate court case history inquiry from the Ellis County District Clerk. |
| Erath County Erath County Clerk civil, criminal, and probate case records. |
| Fort Bend County Family, civil, criminal, and probate case records and court calendars in Fort Bend County. |
| Galveston County Criminal, family, civil, and probate court records and dockets for Galveston County District and County Courts. |
| Galveston County | 122nd District Court Dockets 122nd Judicial District Court of Galveston County docket search. |
| Galveston County | 212th District Court Dockets Galveston County 212th Judicial District Court daily docket search. |
| Grayson County Grayson County court records and court calendar. |
| Gregg County | Court Records & Calendars Civil, criminal, family, and probate case records and court calendars from all Gregg County Courts. |
| Guadalupe County Court Guadalupe County civil, family, criminal, probate, and guardianship court records and court calendars. |
| Hale County | 64th District Court Hale Count 64th District Court dockets. |
| Harris County | County Clerk Civil Harris County Clerk civil court records. |
| Harris County | County Clerk Probate Harris County Clerk's Office probate court records. |
| Harris County | Criminal Records Harris County Justice Information Management System criminal offense searches. |
| Harris County | District Court Harris County District Court Clerk civil, family, and criminal records and court Dockets. |
| Hays County Court Records Sign up for a Basic Access plan for criminal, civil, traffic, probate, and tax court record searches in Hays County, Texas (one per day). More searches require a paid subscription. |
| Hidalgo County Court Records Sign up for a Basic Access plan for criminal, civil, traffic, probate, and tax court record searches in Hidalgo County, Texas (one per day). More searches require an idocket.com paid subscription. |
| Hill County Court Records Register for a BASIC ACCESS plan to get one court record search per day in Hill County, Texas. Additional searches require an idocket.com paid subscription. |
| Hopkins County Hopkins County Clerk court search for criminal, civil, and probate records. Requires registration with the county. |
| Hopkins County | Dockets 8th District Court, 62nd District Court, Family Law, and Court at Law dockets from the Hopkins County District Clerk. |
| Houston Parking Tickets Search for and pay Houston, Texas parking tickets online. |
| Jefferson County | Court Records | Court at Law Jefferson County Clerk's Office Court at Law civil, criminal, and probate court records. |
| Jefferson County | Court Records | District Civil, criminal, and family law District Court indexes from the Jefferson County District Clerk's Office. |
| Jefferson County | Dockets | 136th District Active case list and dockets from the Jefferson County 136th Civil District Court. |
| Jefferson County | Dockets | 172nd District Civil Court dockets, Hearing dockets, and active case list from the Jefferson County 172nd District Court. |
| Jefferson County | Dockets | 252nd District Jefferson County 252nd Civil District Court dockets. |
| Jefferson County | Dockets | 279th District Civil dockets for the Jefferson County 279th District Court. |
| Jefferson County | Dockets | 317th District Jefferson County 317th Civil District Court docket schedule. |
| Jefferson County | Dockets | 58th District Civil Court dockets and active case list from the Jefferson County 58th District Court. |
| Jefferson County | Dockets | 60th District Jefferson County 58th District Court civil case dockets and active case list. |
| Jefferson County | Dockets | Criminal District Court dockets from the Jefferson County Criminal District Court. |
| Johnson County Court Records Register for the idocket.com Basic Access plan to use this service for criminal, civil, traffic, probate, and tax court records in Johnson County, Texas and receive one search per day. Additional searches require an idocket.com paid subscription. |
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| Kerr County Kerr County Civil, Criminal, Family and Probate court records online. |
| Kleberg County Court Records Kleberg County, Texas criminal, civil, traffic, probate, and tax court records. Their free Basic plan gives you one search each day. Pay subscriptions allow for more searches. |
| Lamar County Court Records Criminal and civil court records and court hearing calendar from the Lamar County Courts. |
| Lee County Lee County District Clerk case history records from civil, criminal, and probate courts. |
| Maverick County Pay Site Maverick County traffic, criminal, civil, probate, and tax court records. |
| McCulloch County Court Records Perform one McCulloch County, Texas court record search per day with a basic plan. Do more searches with a paid subscription. |
| McLennan County | Criminal Hearings McLennan County criminal court hearings list and current dockets. |
| Midland County Register with the Midland County Clerk to search civil, criminal, family, and probate court records. |
| Montgomery County Court Records Perform one Montgomery County, Texas court record search per day with a basic plan. Do more searches with a paid subscription. |
| Nacogdoches County Court Records Nacogdoches County, Texas criminal, civil, traffic, probate, and tax court record searches. The free BASIC PLAN allows for one search per day. Get the full paid plan for more searches. |
| Navarro County Court Records Navarro County, Texas criminal, civil, traffic, probate, and tax court records. A free Basic plan gives you one search each day. Paid subscription allows you to do as many as you want. |
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