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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Louisiana / Joined 1935 / Served to 1970

John Baptiste Fournet

Justice, Supreme Court of Louisiana

John Baptiste Fournet was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, who joined the court in 1935. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1895–1984
Tenure: 1935–1970 · 35 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1935	Supreme Court of Louisiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Fournet authored 1,030 published opinions for the court (1934–1970), plus 106 dissents and 43 concurrences. Most cited: Ballard v. National Indemnity Company of Omaha, Neb. (379 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. 421 of these were attributed to Fournet 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
1964	Ballard v. National Indemnity Company of Omaha, Neb.	169 So. 2d 64	379
1963	Kay v. Carter· Dissent†	150 So. 2d 27	194
1969	Bertrand v. Coal Operators Casualty Company· Dissent†	221 So. 2d 816	155
1957	Larkin v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance	97 So. 2d 389	134
1970	Cartwright v. Chrysler Corporation	232 So. 2d 285	113
1938	Parks v. Hall	181 So. 191	113
1962	Leggett v. Northwestern State College· Concurrence†	140 So. 2d 5	108
1953	Brannon v. Zurich General Accident & Liability Ins. Co.	69 So. 2d 1	100
1967	State v. Andrus· Dissent†	199 So. 2d 867	95
1937	State v. Standard Oil Co. of Louisiana	178 So. 601	95
1957	Washington Fire & Marine Insurance v. Firemen's Insurance	94 So. 2d 295	94
1942	State v. Vinzant· Dissent	7 So. 2d 917	92
1963	Pilie v. National Food Stores of Louisiana, Inc.· Dissent†	158 So. 2d 162	87
1961	State v. Hills· Separate†	129 So. 2d 12	86
1958	Madison v. Bolton†	102 So. 2d 433	85

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,222 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 Baptiste Fournet on?: John Baptiste Fournet was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.

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35 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).