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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

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John L. Weimer

Justice, Supreme Court of Louisiana

John L. Weimer is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, serving since 2001. He previously served on the Louisiana Court of Appeal. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1954 · age 72
Tenure: Since 2001 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1998	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–
2001	Supreme Court of Louisiana	–	–

Education

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Weimer authored 638 published opinions for the court (1998–2026), plus 149 dissents and 507 concurrences. Most cited: Jones v. Estate of Santiago (360 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. 841 of these were attributed to Weimer 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
2004	Jones v. Estate of Santiago	870 So. 2d 1002	360
2011	Wooley v. Lucksinger· Concurrence†	61 So. 3d 507	352
2006	Lemann v. Essen Lane Daiquiris, Inc.	923 So. 2d 627	297
2004	Costello v. Hardy	864 So. 2d 129	276
2002	Pinsonneault v. Merchants & Farmers Bank & Trust Company	816 So. 2d 270	265
2007	Sims v. Mulhearn Funeral Home, Inc.	956 So. 2d 583	253
2011	Schultz v. Guoth· Dissent†	57 So. 3d 1002	247
2003	Authement v. Shappert Engineering	840 So. 2d 1181	239
2003	Reed v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co.	857 So. 2d 1012	236
2004	Hutchinson v. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS, NO. 5747	866 So. 2d 228	228
2008	Bellard v. American Cent. Ins. Co.	980 So. 2d 654	227
2009	State v. Bertrand· Concurrence†	6 So. 3d 738	224
2006	Kennedy v. Sheriff of East Baton Rouge	935 So. 2d 669	223
2002	State v. Sugasti	820 So. 2d 518	209
2005	State v. Juniors	915 So. 2d 291	200

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,294 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 is John L. Weimer on?: John L. Weimer is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.

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24 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).