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 1978

Joe W. Sanders

Justice, Supreme Court of Louisiana

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

Lived: 1915–1994
Tenure: 1960–1978 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

Judicial Record

In our data, Sanders authored 639 published opinions for the court (1960–1979), plus 142 dissents and 49 concurrences. Most cited: Dixie Drive It Yourself System New Orleans Co. v. American Beverage Co. (631 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. 397 of these were attributed to Sanders 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
1962	Dixie Drive It Yourself System New Orleans Co. v. American Beverage Co.	137 So. 2d 298	631
1969	American Home Assurance Company v. Czarniecki· Dissent†	230 So. 2d 253	254
1979	Saucier v. Hayes Dairy Products, Inc.	373 So. 2d 102	247
1971	Fulco v. Fulco· Dissent†	254 So. 2d 603	239
1970	Pierre v. Allstate Insurance Company· Dissent†	242 So. 2d 821	216
1974	Prim v. City of Shreveport	297 So. 2d 421	210
1977	Kyle v. City of New Orleans	353 So. 2d 969	192
1971	State v. Dotson· Separate†	256 So. 2d 594	176
1977	State v. Bennett	345 So. 2d 1129	168
1971	Miller v. Thomas	246 So. 2d 16	161
1972	Media Production Consultants, Inc. v. Mercedes-Benz of North America, Inc.	262 So. 2d 377	155
1963	Naquin v. Marquette Casualty Company	153 So. 2d 395	155
1976	Gonzales v. Winn-Dixie Louisiana, Inc.	326 So. 2d 486	152
1976	Ducote v. Ducote	339 So. 2d 835	150
1978	State v. Jackson	360 So. 2d 842	125

Showing the 15 most-cited of 849 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 Joe W. Sanders on?: Joe W. Sanders was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Sources

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18 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).