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Supreme Court of Louisiana / Joined 1986 / Served to 1992

Luther F. Cole

Justice, Supreme Court of Louisiana

Luther F. Cole was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, who joined the court in 1986. He previously served on the Louisiana Court of Appeal. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1925–2013
Tenure: 1986–1992 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1979	Louisiana Court of Appeal	–	–
1986	Supreme Court of Louisiana	–	–

Education

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Cole authored 506 published opinions for the court (1976–1992), plus 15 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Sistler v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co. (1,021 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. 204 of these were attributed to Cole 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
1990	Sistler v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co.	558 So. 2d 1106	1,021
1991	Housley v. Cerise	579 So. 2d 973	691
1989	Penalber v. Blount	550 So. 2d 577	380
1992	State v. Smith	600 So. 2d 1319	314
1992	Spott v. Otis Elevator Co.	601 So. 2d 1355	237
1987	Roger v. Estate of Moulton	513 So. 2d 1126	213
1992	Tugwell v. State Farm Ins. Co.	609 So. 2d 195	212
1991	Oster v. Dept. of Transp. & Development	582 So. 2d 1285	176
1986	State v. Perry	502 So. 2d 543	128
1989	State v. Brooks	541 So. 2d 801	112
1990	Palermo Land Co. v. Planning Com'n of Calcasieu Parish	561 So. 2d 482	111
1986	State v. Griffin	495 So. 2d 1306	109
1992	State v. Martin	595 So. 2d 592	99
1991	Louisiana Associated Gen. Contr. v. Calcasieu	586 So. 2d 1354	94
1991	Aisole v. Dean	574 So. 2d 1248	94

Showing the 15 most-cited of 529 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 Luther F. Cole on?: Luther F. Cole was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Sources

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6 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).