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Phillip Scott Spenrath
County Judge · Wharton County Court · Wharton County, Texas
High confidence· verified August 25, 2026
- verified requirements
- 19
- verified requirements
- rule deadlines
- 9
- rule deadlines
- sources cited
- 5
- sources cited
- reviewed insights
- 0
- reviewed insights
- verified rulings
- 0
- verified rulings
Verification profile
- High · 19
- Medium · 0
- Low · 0
- Unverified · 0
Report generated October 25, 2026 · benchpath.ai/reports/judge/tx-phillip-scott-spenrath
01 Division & assignment
County Judge — Wharton County Court (Commissioners Court; constitutional county court)
02 Live Case-Type Intelligence Scan
Live case-type intelligence scan
● LiveAnswer three quick questions. The platform pulls Phillip Scott Spenrath's full public case-law record from the source, newest first — your matter never narrows the pull; it directs the relevance ranking and the dual-AI analysis. Every hit comes back Bluebook-cited with the opinion's own words quoted verbatim. The scan takes the time precision takes.
- 1. Case area & type
- 2. Refine
- 3. Review & scan
Case-law search
CourtListener · free connector · liveCoverage note: CourtListener is strongest for federal and state appellate courts; Texas trial-court opinions are essentially absent from the source.
Research connectors
CourtListener
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Westlaw
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03 Division intelligence
Appellate exposure
Appeals from this courtroom go to the Thirteenth Court of Appeals.
● LiveThat court's published bench (6): Clarissa Silva, Jaime E. Tijerina, Jenny Cron, Jon West, Lionel Aron Peña Jr., Ysmael D. Fonseca
County-to-district assignment per Tex. Gov't Code sec. 22.201(n), live-fetched registry.
Local-rule conflict sentinel
● LiveNo judge-level deadline on record runs shorter than a statewide deadline with the same trigger. The sentinel compares quoted timing across every published rule scoped to this judge on each visit — a clean result today is re-earned tomorrow.
05 Procedural requirements (19)
06 Deadline table
07 Ruling intelligence
No verified ruling summary yet — summaries publish only after human review of a real opinion/docket corpus. The live scan at the top of this report covers what public sources hold today.
08 Source appendix (5)
- Wharton County court pages — co.wharton.tx.us (county site tree)Healthychecked October 24, 2026
- TOPICs — Texas local rules registry (topics.txcourts.gov)Healthychecked October 24, 2026
- Matagorda County court pages — matagordatx.gov (county site tree)Healthychecked October 24, 2026
- Texas Business Court — txcourts.gov/businesscourt (division pages and the divisions' forms)Healthychecked —
- Supreme Court of Texas — Rules & Standards (statewide compilations)Healthychecked October 19, 2026
09 Recent change events
- October 19, 2026Monitor detected a source-content or hash-basis change. Review the archived bytes before republishing dependent material.
10 Contribute ground truth
Intelligence skills executed on this report
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This report compiles procedural information and public-record research from the official sources cited above, with per-item verification status. It is not legal advice, contains no outcome predictions, is not a substitute for the advice of an attorney, and creates no attorney–client relationship. Items below high confidence must be verified against the official source before relying on them. Print with your browser for a clean PDF.