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 1970 / Served to 1979

Edward Stoulig

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Edward Stoulig was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1970. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1970–1979 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1970	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Stoulig authored 357 published opinions for the court (1971–1981), plus 23 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: Collector of Revenue v. Murphy Oil Co. (30 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. 306 of these were attributed to Stoulig 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
1977	Collector of Revenue v. Murphy Oil Co.	351 So. 2d 1234	30
1977	Sansonni v. Jefferson Parish School Bd.	344 So. 2d 42	25
1975	Smith v. Westside Transit Lines, Inc.	313 So. 2d 371	25
1971	Woodfork v. Sanders	248 So. 2d 419	25
1979	Roberts v. Tiny Tim Thrifty Check	367 So. 2d 64	24
1971	Smith v. Department of Public Safety	254 So. 2d 515	24
1973	Serean v. Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation	277 So. 2d 732	20
1979	DeCastro v. Boylan	367 So. 2d 83	19
1972	Dunn v. Parish of Jefferson	256 So. 2d 664	19
1974	Lowenburg v. Labor Pool of America, Inc.	296 So. 2d 846	17
1974	Jones v. Simonson	292 So. 2d 251	17
1971	Tillman v. Holsum Bakeries, Inc.	244 So. 2d 681	17
1974	Atlas Lubricant Corp. v. Federal Ins. Co. of NJ	293 So. 2d 550	16
1974	Insurance Co. of No. Amer. v. Binnings Const. Co., Inc.	288 So. 2d 359	16
1979	American Ins. Co. v. Duo Fast Dixie, Inc.	367 So. 2d 415	15

Showing the 15 most-cited of 395 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 Edward Stoulig on?: Edward Stoulig was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

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9 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).