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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Louisiana Court of Appeal / Joined 1992 / Served to 1992

Joseph Emile Coreil

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Joseph Emile Coreil was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1992. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1919–2008
Tenure: 1992–1992

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1992	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Coreil authored 25 published opinions for the court (1992–1993). Most cited: State v. Hall (41 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. 15 of these were attributed to Coreil 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
1992	State v. Hall	606 So. 2d 972	41
1992	Stelly v. United Parcel Service	600 So. 2d 156	18
1992	Chandler v. Grass	600 So. 2d 852	14
1992	Taylor v. Louisiana-Pacific Corp.	602 So. 2d 48	14
1992	Roy v. Gupta	606 So. 2d 940	10
1992	Winbush v. Normal Life of Louisiana, Inc.	599 So. 2d 489	10
1992	Goodrich v. Exxon Co., USA	608 So. 2d 1019	8
1992	State v. Barras†	602 So. 2d 301	6
1992	Matthews v. City of Alexandria†	602 So. 2d 731	5
1993	Weber v. State	608 So. 2d 1016	4
1992	Obermier v. State	606 So. 2d 937	4
1992	State v. Jones†	606 So. 2d 81	3
1992	Nugent v. City of Alexandria†	602 So. 2d 734	3
1992	Union Bank v. Baudin†	598 So. 2d 689	3
1992	Robicheaux v. Lafayette OB/GYN Clinic†	607 So. 2d 990	2

Showing the 15 most-cited of 25 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 Louisiana Court of Appeal reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Joseph Emile Coreil on?: Joseph Emile Coreil was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

Sources

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Joined the court in 1992. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).