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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Louisiana Court of Appeal / Joined 1960 / Served to 1972

Julian E. Bailes Sr.

Judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal

Julian E. Bailes Sr. was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, who joined the court in 1960. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1915–2010
Tenure: 1960–1972 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

Northwestern State University of Louisiana

Judicial Record

In our data, Bailes authored 358 published opinions for the court (1962–1991), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Hoffman v. All Star Insurance Corp. (38 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. 208 of these were attributed to Bailes 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
1974	Hoffman v. All Star Insurance Corp.	288 So. 2d 388	38
1975	Wade v. McInnis-Peterson Chevrolet, Inc.	307 So. 2d 798	37
1975	Tillman v. Canal Insurance Co.	305 So. 2d 602	32
1967	Stevens v. Patterson Menhaden Corporation	191 So. 2d 692	28
1975	Braud v. Kinchen	310 So. 2d 657	26
1975	Succession of Moody	306 So. 2d 869	24
1975	Womack & Adcock v. 3M Business Products Sales, Inc.	316 So. 2d 795	22
1968	Pringle Associated Mortgage Corporation v. Eanes	208 So. 2d 346	22
1966	Lambert v. Austin Bridge Company	189 So. 2d 752	22
1972	Cormack v. Prudential Insurance Company of America	259 So. 2d 340	21
1968	Gardner v. Industrial Indemnity Company	212 So. 2d 452	21
1975	Hickman v. Parish of East Baton Rouge	314 So. 2d 486	20
1974	State, Department of Highways v. Wax	295 So. 2d 833	20
1968	Godfrey v. Baton Rouge Recreation & Parks Com'n	213 So. 2d 109	20
1966	Pittman and Matheny v. Davidge	189 So. 2d 706	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 360 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 Julian E. Bailes Sr. on?: Julian E. Bailes Sr. was a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal.

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12 years on the Louisiana Court of Appeal. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).