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Supreme Court of Louisiana / Joined 1937 / Served to 1959

Amos Lee PONDER Jr.

Justice, Supreme Court of Louisiana

Amos Lee PONDER Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, who joined the court in 1937. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1887–1959
Tenure: 1937–1959 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1937	Supreme Court of Louisiana	–	–

Education

Tulane University of Louisiana
Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

Judicial Record

In our data, PONDER authored 769 published opinions for the court (1936–1981), plus 19 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Gaiennie v. Cooperative Produce Co. (117 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 257 of these were attributed to PONDER by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1940	Gaiennie v. Cooperative Produce Co.	199 So. 377	117
1952	Mottet v. Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co.	57 So. 2d 218	112
1956	Texas Pipe Line Company v. Barbe· Separate†	85 So. 2d 260	82
1959	Hernandez v. Harson· Separate†	111 So. 2d 320	81
1942	Ricks v. Department of State Civil Service	8 So. 2d 49	79
1948	State v. Poe	38 So. 2d 359	78
1943	State Ex Rel. Rathe v. Jefferson Parish School Board· Concurrence	19 So. 2d 153	64
1958	California Company v. Price	99 So. 2d 743	63
1957	Sessum v. Hemperley	96 So. 2d 832	63
1945	Culpepper v. Leonard Truck Lines, Inc.	24 So. 2d 148	57
1944	American Guaranty Co. v. Sunset Realty & Planting Co.	23 So. 2d 409	57
1941	Puchner v. Employers' Liability Assur. Corp.· Separate	5 So. 2d 288	57
1943	McCann v. Todd	14 So. 2d 469	53
1959	Banjavich v. Louisiana Licensing Board for Marine Divers· Dissent†	111 So. 2d 505	51
1943	Keller v. Haas	12 So. 2d 238	51

Showing the 15 most-cited of 814 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Supreme Court of Louisiana reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Amos Lee PONDER Jr. on?: Amos Lee PONDER Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.

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22 years on the Supreme Court of Louisiana. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).