How do judges of the Supreme Court of Louisiana reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Louisiana / Joined 1960 / Served to 1980

Frank Summers

Justice, Supreme Court of Louisiana

Frank Summers was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, who joined the court in 1960. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1914–1993
Tenure: 1960–1980 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1960	Supreme Court of Louisiana	–	–

Education

Tulane University of Louisiana

Judicial Record

In our data, Summers authored 715 published opinions for the court (1961–1981), plus 344 dissents and 74 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. 638 of these were attributed to Summers 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· Dissent†	158 So. 2d 149	710
1971	Langlois v. Allied Chemical Corporation· Dissent†	249 So. 2d 133	282
1972	Hickman Ex Rel. Iles v. Southern Pacific Transport Co.	262 So. 2d 385	281
1971	State Ex Rel. Jackson v. Henderson· Concurrence†	255 So. 2d 85	258
1969	American Home Assurance Company v. Czarniecki	230 So. 2d 253	254
1967	Minyard v. Curtis Products, Inc.	205 So. 2d 422	244
1975	Hero Lands Company v. Texaco, Inc.	310 So. 2d 93	239
1971	Fulco v. Fulco· Dissent†	254 So. 2d 603	239
1979	Folse v. Fakouri	371 So. 2d 1120	218
1970	Pierre v. Allstate Insurance Company· Dissent†	242 So. 2d 821	216
1976	TL James & Co., Inc. v. Montgomery	332 So. 2d 834	177
1969	Bertrand v. Coal Operators Casualty Company	221 So. 2d 816	155
1971	State v. Square	244 So. 2d 200	118
1973	Lombard v. Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans	284 So. 2d 905	117
1970	Reymond v. State Ex Rel. Department of Highways· Concurrence†	231 So. 2d 375	114

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,141 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 Frank Summers on?: Frank Summers was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.

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19 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).