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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Louisiana / Joined 1971 / Served to 1990

John Allen Dixon Jr.

Justice, Supreme Court of Louisiana

John Allen Dixon Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, who joined the court in 1971. He previously served on the Louisiana Court of Appeal. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1920–2003
Tenure: 1971–1990 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1968	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–
1971	Supreme Court of Louisiana	–	–

Education

Centenary College
Tulane University of Louisiana
Centenary College
Tulane University of Louisiana

Judicial Record

In our data, Dixon authored 1,283 published opinions for the court (1968–1990), plus 258 dissents and 203 concurrences. Most cited: Arceneaux v. Domingue (3,592 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. 717 of these were attributed to Dixon 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
1978	Arceneaux v. Domingue	365 So. 2d 1330	3,592
1981	State v. Jones	398 So. 2d 1049	1,110
1983	State v. Richardson	425 So. 2d 1228	923
1971	Jordan v. Travelers Insurance Company· Concurrence†	245 So. 2d 151	500
1983	State v. Seiss	428 So. 2d 444	383
1983	City of Port Allen v. Louisiana Mun. Risk	439 So. 2d 399	320
1980	Sanders v. Hercules Sheet Metal, Inc.	385 So. 2d 772	272
1976	Cates v. Beauregard Electric Cooperative, Inc.	328 So. 2d 367	270
1983	State v. Soco	441 So. 2d 719	237
1983	State v. Narcisse	426 So. 2d 118	222
1974	Bitoun v. Landry	302 So. 2d 278	208
1984	State v. Nuccio	454 So. 2d 93	207
1972	Boudreaux v. American Insurance Company· Dissent†	264 So. 2d 621	204
1984	State v. Davis	448 So. 2d 645	193
1983	State v. Johnson	432 So. 2d 815	192

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,749 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 John Allen Dixon Jr. on?: John Allen Dixon Jr. 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).