How do judges of the Supreme Court of Louisiana reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Louisiana / Joined 1934 / Served to 1945

Archibald T. Higgins

Justice, Supreme Court of Louisiana

Archibald T. Higgins was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, who joined the court in 1934. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1934–1945 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1934	Supreme Court of Louisiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Higgins authored 404 published opinions for the court (1932–1945), plus 30 dissents and 22 concurrences. Most cited: Reeves v. Globe Indemnity Co. of New York (93 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. 9 of these were attributed to Higgins 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
1936	Reeves v. Globe Indemnity Co. of New York	168 So. 488	93
1936	Gulf Refining Co. of Louisiana v. Glassell	171 So. 846	91
1940	State v. Henry	198 So. 910	82
1937	Louisiana Power & Light Co. v. Saia	177 So. 238	75
1935	Edwards v. Royal Indemnity Co.	161 So. 191	75
1936	Miami Corporation v. State	173 So. 315	69
1943	State Ex Rel. Rathe v. Jefferson Parish School Board· Concurrence	19 So. 2d 153	64
1941	Mouledoux v. Maestri	2 So. 2d 11	64
1936	Kirk v. United Gas Public Service Co.· Dissent	170 So. 1	63
1935	Barr v. Davis Bros. Lumber Co.· Concurrence	165 So. 185	61
1941	Edwards v. Wiseman	3 So. 2d 661	60
1944	American Guaranty Co. v. Sunset Realty & Planting Co.· Separate	23 So. 2d 409	57
1945	State v. Davis· Dissent	23 So. 2d 801	54
1943	McCann v. Todd· Dissent	14 So. 2d 469	53
1936	Succession of Robinson	172 So. 429	53

Showing the 15 most-cited of 469 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 Archibald T. Higgins on?: Archibald T. Higgins was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.

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11 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).