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 2010 / Active

Daniel Dysart

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Daniel Dysart is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, serving since 2010. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2010 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2010	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Dysart authored 326 published opinions for the court (2011–2026), plus 19 dissents and 30 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Rubens (41 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. 361 of these were attributed to Dysart 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
2011	State v. Rubens†	83 So. 3d 30	41
2015	Chatelain v. Fluor Daniel Construction Co.· Concurrence†	179 So. 3d 791	35
2011	State v. Green†	84 So. 3d 573	27
2013	Garrison v. Old Man River Esplanade, L.L.C.†	133 So. 3d 699	25
2015	McGinn v. Crescent City Connection Bridge Authority†	174 So. 3d 145	22
2011	State v. Molineux†	76 So. 3d 617	22
2018	S.L.B. v. C.E.B.†	252 So. 3d 950	20
2016	Fiveash v. Pat O'Brien's Bar, Inc.· Dissent†	201 So. 3d 912	19
2015	State v. Rapp†	161 So. 3d 103	19
2012	Nola 180 v. Harrah's Operating Co.†	94 So. 3d 886	18
2015	State v. Miner†	163 So. 3d 132	16
2012	Dean v. Delacroix Corp.†	106 So. 3d 283	16
2015	Delta Staff Leasing, LLC v. South Coast Solar, LLC†	176 So. 3d 668	14
2014	Wendel v. Travelers Insurance Co.· Concurrence†	151 So. 3d 828	14
2014	State v. Hankton†	140 So. 3d 398	14

Showing the 15 most-cited of 375 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 is Daniel Dysart on?: Daniel Dysart is 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).