When may another party file a Texas Supreme Court petition for review?

Identify the preceding petition and prove it was timely under Rule 53.7(a) or an actual Supreme Court extension.

Establish whether this other party must file its own petition.

Obtain all actual timely-motion rulings and preceding petition filings, compute each applicable branch and compare the actual endpoints.

1. Identify the preceding petition and prove it was timely under Rule 53.7(a) or an actual Supreme Court extension.
2. Exclude the actual triggering event and count every intermediate calendar day under Rule 4.1(a). Do not import the Civil Rules’ short-period exclusion into appellate computation. A signing, rendition, filing or ruling date must be established from its own actual record. Independently establish each applicable branch and apply its own period. Compare the resulting last days rather than selecting the earlier event or automatically adding thirty days.
3. Apply Rule 4.1 and establish the actual clerk calendar.
4. Complete the required act in the correct court.

Rule 4.1(a) moves a final Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday to the next eligible day. Rule 4.1(b) separately extends a filing period when the proper clerk is closed or inaccessible during regular hours on the final day, until the next open and accessible day. Preserve the required proof. The encoded Texas holiday calendar covers 2026 through 2028; it does not know additional local closure or system failure.

The available single-input calculator cannot establish the qualifying preceding petition, required own petition, motion-ruling branch and later-of comparison. No computed date or paid calculation action is offered.

Establish the January 1, 2026 applicability boundary

Misc. Docket No. 25-9104, paragraphs 3–4, applies the amended Supreme Court rules when the petition, or first petition in a multiple-petition case, is filed on or after January 1, 2026. Earlier cases use the former rules unless the Court orders otherwise. This review’s current contents apply only after that edition is established.

A petition must satisfy its substantive and appendix requirements

Rule 53.2 requires the petition’s ordered contents, jurisdictional statement, issues, record-supported facts, argument, prayer and bookmarked necessary appendix. A timely filing does not establish jurisdiction or compliance with those requirements.

The preceding petition must qualify

Rule 53.7(c) applies when a party files within Rule 53.7(a)’s time or a Supreme Court extension. A late unextended preceding petition does not itself establish that prerequisite.

Any preceding petition is the stated filing event

The thirty-day branch uses any preceding petition, not necessarily only the first petition. Obtain actual filing dates and establish the relevant branch from the text and procedural history.

Establish every required petition and branch

Rule 53.7(c) addresses another party required to petition and compares with forty-five days after the last timely motion is overruled. Do not invent a motion-ruling date when no such motion exists; establish the complete applicable petition timetable.

• The calculator does not decide appealability, disputed classification, the merits, entitlement to relief or sufficiency of a filing.
• The consolidation date does not establish applicability of every historical amendment. Read the actual governing edition and orders.

• Identify the preceding petition and prove it was timely under Rule 53.7(a) or an actual Supreme Court extension.
• Establish whether this other party must file its own petition.
• Obtain all actual timely-motion rulings and preceding petition filings, compute each applicable branch and compare the actual endpoints.
• Misc. Docket No. 25-9104, paragraphs 3–4, applies the amended Supreme Court rules when the petition, or first petition in a multiple-petition case, is filed on or after January 1, 2026. Earlier cases use the former rules unless the Court orders otherwise. This review’s current contents apply only after that edition is established.
• Rule 53.2 requires the petition’s ordered contents, jurisdictional statement, issues, record-supported facts, argument, prayer and bookmarked necessary appendix. A timely filing does not establish jurisdiction or compliance with those requirements.
• Rule 53.7(c) applies when a party files within Rule 53.7(a)’s time or a Supreme Court extension. A late unextended preceding petition does not itself establish that prerequisite.
• The thirty-day branch uses any preceding petition, not necessarily only the first petition. Obtain actual filing dates and establish the relevant branch from the text and procedural history.
• Rule 53.7(c) addresses another party required to petition and compares with forty-five days after the last timely motion is overruled. Do not invent a motion-ruling date when no such motion exists; establish the complete applicable petition timetable.
• File the required party’s own Rule 53.2 petition with the Supreme Court clerk and preserve the qualifying petition, rulings and full comparison. File with the proper appellate clerk. Under Rule 9.2(c)(4), ordinary electronic filing occurs on transmission to the filing party’s service provider before midnight in the court’s time zone, subject to a specified time of day, weekend or holiday transmission and a required leave order. Attorneys in civil cases must electronically file subject to Rule 9.2(c)’s stated exceptions. Preserve confirmation and seek appropriate court relief for technical failure under 9.2(c)(5). Rule 9.5 separately requires timely service on all parties, ordinarily their lead counsel, and proof of service; appellate records outside original proceedings have their stated service exception. A qualifying mailed filing under 9.2(b) requires timely deposit or delivery and receipt within ten days after the filing deadline. Those ten days do not permit late deposit.