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Supreme Court of Louisiana / Joined 1947 / Served to 1972

E. Howard MCCALEB

Justice, Supreme Court of Louisiana

E. Howard MCCALEB was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, who joined the court in 1947. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1897–1978
Tenure: 1947–1972 · 25 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1947	Supreme Court of Louisiana	–	–

Education

Washington and Lee University

Judicial Record

In our data, MCCALEB authored 817 published opinions for the court (1941–1973), plus 169 dissents and 125 concurrences. Most cited: Gaspard v. LeMaire (710 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. 565 of these were attributed to MCCALEB 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
1963	Gaspard v. LeMaire	158 So. 2d 149	710
1964	Ballard v. National Indemnity Company of Omaha, Neb.· Concurrence†	169 So. 2d 64	379
1971	Langlois v. Allied Chemical Corporation· Concurrence†	249 So. 2d 133	282
1970	Pierre v. Allstate Insurance Company	242 So. 2d 821	216
1954	Meyer v. St. Paul-Mercury Indemnity Co.· Dissent†	73 So. 2d 781	129
1950	West v. Monroe Bakery, Inc.· Dissent†	46 So. 2d 122	121
1953	Albritton v. Fireman's Fund Ins. Co.	70 So. 2d 111	112
1952	Wright v. National Surety Corp.	59 So. 2d 695	112
1955	Decker v. Landry	80 So. 2d 91	107
1961	Day v. National US Radiator Corporation· Concurrence†	128 So. 2d 660	101
1960	Youngblood v. Robison	118 So. 2d 431	97
1956	Wallace v. Remington Rand, Inc.	86 So. 2d 522	92
1967	Olds v. Ashley	200 So. 2d 1	91
1971	Summerell v. Phillips· Dissent†	247 So. 2d 542	87
1968	Viator v. Gilbert	216 So. 2d 821	87

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,131 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 E. Howard MCCALEB on?: E. Howard MCCALEB was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Sources

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25 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).