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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Louisiana Court of Appeal / Joined 1999 / Active

Dennis Bagneris

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Dennis Bagneris is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, serving since 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1999 · 27 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bagneris authored 307 published opinions for the court (1999–2026), plus 12 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Harris (60 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. 144 of these were attributed to Bagneris 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
2000	State v. Harris	765 So. 2d 432	60
2000	Grayson v. RB Ammon and Associates, Inc.	778 So. 2d 1	54
2016	State v. Williams†	186 So. 3d 242	49
1999	State v. Tyler	749 So. 2d 767	48
2005	Katz v. Allstate Ins. Co.	917 So. 2d 443	35
2011	Tulane University Hospital & Clinic v. Lockheed Martin Corp.†	70 So. 3d 988	33
2000	Turnbull v. Thensted	757 So. 2d 145	27
2001	Montelepre v. Waring Architects	787 So. 2d 1127	24
2000	Bartlett Const. Co. Inc. v. St. Bernard Council	763 So. 2d 94	23
2003	Simpson v. Pep Boys-Manny Moe & Jack, Inc.	847 So. 2d 617	22
2011	Sturdy Built Homes, L.L.C. v. Carl E. Woodward L.L.C.†	82 So. 3d 473	21
2008	State v. Shaw	987 So. 2d 398	20
2007	Orellana v. LOUISIANA CITIZENS PROP. INS.	972 So. 2d 1252	20
2000	Spellman v. Bizal	755 So. 2d 1013	20
2010	Hamp's Construction, L.L.C. v. Housing Authority of New Orleans†	52 So. 3d 970	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 327 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 Dennis Bagneris on?: Dennis Bagneris is a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

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27 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).