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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Louisiana Court of Appeal / Joined 1982 / Served to 1998

Burrel J. Carter

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Burrel J. Carter was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1982. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1935 · age 91
Tenure: 1982–1998 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1982	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Education

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Carter authored 632 published opinions for the court (1982–2011), plus 8 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Greer (102 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. 255 of these were attributed to Carter 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
1990	State v. Greer	572 So. 2d 1166	102
1990	Robertson v. OUR LADY OF LAKE MED. CTR.	574 So. 2d 381	82
2003	Stroscher v. Stroscher	845 So. 2d 518	65
1987	Wells v. Allstate Ins. Co.	510 So. 2d 763	51
1985	Anthony v. Hospital Service Dist. No. 1	477 So. 2d 1180	47
1998	Foreman v. DANOS AND CUROLE MARINE CONT.	722 So. 2d 1	45
2003	Landry v. Leonard J. Chabert Med. Ctr.	858 So. 2d 454	44
1984	State v. Savoie	448 So. 2d 129	43
1999	State v. Lanieu	734 So. 2d 89	40
1986	Sparacello v. Andrews	501 So. 2d 269	39
1986	Coates v. Northlake Oil Co., Inc.	499 So. 2d 252	37
2003	Miller v. Superior Shipyard and Fabrication	859 So. 2d 159	32
1990	Nungesser v. Nungesser	558 So. 2d 695	32
1990	State v. Martin	558 So. 2d 654	32
1986	Harrigan v. Freeman	498 So. 2d 58	31

Showing the 15 most-cited of 651 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 Louisiana Court of Appeal reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Burrel J. Carter on?: Burrel J. Carter was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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