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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Louisiana / Joined 1914 / Served to 1949

Charles Austin O'NIELL

Justice, Supreme Court of Louisiana

Charles Austin O'NIELL was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana (7 judges, selected by partisan election), who joined the court in 1914. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1869–1951
Tenure: 1914–1949 · 35 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1914	Supreme Court of Louisiana	–	–

Education

Christian Brothers University
Tulane University of Louisiana

Judicial Record

In our data, O'NIELL authored 931 published opinions for the court (1921–1949), plus 181 dissents and 120 concurrences. Most cited: Houghton v. Hall (111 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. 1,257 of these were attributed to O'NIELL 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
1933	Houghton v. Hall· Concurrence†	148 So. 37	111
1947	State v. Truby· Dissent†	29 So. 2d 758	102
1937	State v. Standard Oil Co. of Louisiana· Dissent†	178 So. 601	95
1936	Gulf Refining Co. of Louisiana v. Glassell· Dissent†	171 So. 846	91
1940	Carlino v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.· Separate†	199 So. 228	81
1948	State v. Poe· Dissent†	38 So. 2d 359	78
1926	Klein v. Young†	111 So. 495	76
1931	Roberson v. Pioneer Gas Co.†	137 So. 46	73
1927	Moulin v. Monteleone†	115 So. 447	71
1925	Kittredge v. Grau†	103 So. 723	70
1936	Miami Corporation v. State· Dissent†	173 So. 315	69
1931	Lorance v. Smith· Concurrence†	138 So. 871	67
1941	Graham v. Jones· Dissent†	3 So. 2d 761	66
1938	Tillery v. Fuller†	182 So. 683	66
1943	State Ex Rel. Rathe v. Jefferson Parish School Board· Dissent†	19 So. 2d 153	64

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,257 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 Charles Austin O'NIELL on?: Charles Austin O'NIELL was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Sources

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35 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).