When is a petition for review due in the Supreme Court of Texas?

Obtain the actual appellate judgment and establish its rendition.

Inventory every timely rehearing and en banc motion and its actual disposition.

If any such motion was timely filed, select the actual last ruling on all of them and check the Supreme Court’s orders.

1. Obtain the actual appellate judgment and establish its rendition.
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. Add forty-five days to the independently selected rendition or last-ruling event. The calculator does not inspect the motion docket.
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.

Fictitious example

Fictitious facts. The court of appeals renders judgment and no rehearing or en banc motion is timely filed. No earlier Supreme Court order applies. The actual input event is July 19, 2027. No additional closure or different court order applies.

Fictitious facts with the stated appeal classification and actual event independently established. No additional closure, order, disputed eligibility or unmodeled restart is assumed.

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.

All timely rehearing and en banc motions matter

Rule 53.7(a) uses judgment rendition only when no rehearing or en banc motion is timely filed. Otherwise it uses the court’s last ruling on all timely motions, not the first denial, a motion’s filing date or its service date. Establish every timely motion and actual ruling.

The Supreme Court can order earlier petition filing

Rule 53.7(a) expressly permits an earlier filing deadline ordered by the Supreme Court. Read the actual order before using the ordinary forty-five-day branch.

Premature petitions and pending motions have stated treatment

Rule 53.7(b) treats a petition filed before the last ruling on all timely rehearing and en banc motions as filed on that ruling date, after the ruling. A petition filed while a motion is pending must disclose that fact.

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.

Petition extension is separately requested

Rule 53.7(f) permits petition extension if a Rule 10.5(b) motion is filed no later than fifteen days after its last day. It does not make a pending request an automatic extension.

Mistaken filing in the court of appeals has stated treatment

Rule 53.7(g) deems a petition mistakenly filed in the court of appeals filed the same day with the Supreme Court clerk and directs immediate forwarding. This is not a reason to ignore the proper filing destination.

• 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.

• Obtain the actual appellate judgment and establish its rendition.
• Inventory every timely rehearing and en banc motion and its actual disposition.
• If any such motion was timely filed, select the actual last ruling on all of them and check the Supreme Court’s orders.
• 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 53.7(a) uses judgment rendition only when no rehearing or en banc motion is timely filed. Otherwise it uses the court’s last ruling on all timely motions, not the first denial, a motion’s filing date or its service date. Establish every timely motion and actual ruling.
• Rule 53.7(a) expressly permits an earlier filing deadline ordered by the Supreme Court. Read the actual order before using the ordinary forty-five-day branch.
• Rule 53.7(b) treats a petition filed before the last ruling on all timely rehearing and en banc motions as filed on that ruling date, after the ruling. A petition filed while a motion is pending must disclose that fact.
• 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(f) permits petition extension if a Rule 10.5(b) motion is filed no later than fifteen days after its last day. It does not make a pending request an automatic extension.
• Rule 53.7(g) deems a petition mistakenly filed in the court of appeals filed the same day with the Supreme Court clerk and directs immediate forwarding. This is not a reason to ignore the proper filing destination.
• File the conforming Rule 53.2 petition with the Supreme Court clerk. Preserve jurisdictional grounds, actual docket chronology and required appendix. 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.