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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Louisiana / Joined 1973 / Served to 2008

Pascal F. Calogero Jr.

Justice, Supreme Court of Louisiana

Pascal F. Calogero Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, who joined the court in 1973. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1931 · age 95
Tenure: 1973–2008 · 35 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1973	Supreme Court of Louisiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Calogero authored 1,998 published opinions for the court (1973–2009), plus 161 dissents and 232 concurrences. Most cited: Stobart v. State Through DOTD (4,923 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. 588 of these were attributed to Calogero 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
1993	Stobart v. State Through DOTD	617 So. 2d 880	4,923
1975	State v. Oliveaux	312 So. 2d 337	2,215
1993	State v. Dorthey	623 So. 2d 1276	2,087
1977	Coco v. Winston Industries, Inc.	341 So. 2d 332	1,851
1980	State v. Bonanno	384 So. 2d 355	1,730
1987	Mart v. Hill	505 So. 2d 1120	1,323
1985	Watson v. State Farm Fire and Cas. Ins. Co.	469 So. 2d 967	1,067
2003	State v. Tate	851 So. 2d 921	706
1985	State v. Hogan	480 So. 2d 288	638
1975	Gonzales v. Xerox Corp.	320 So. 2d 163	616
1997	Banks v. Indus. Roofing & Sheet Metal	696 So. 2d 551	589
1994	Ambrose v. New Orleans Police Amb. Serv.	639 So. 2d 216	516
1994	Pfiffner v. Correa	643 So. 2d 1228	469
1996	Clement v. Frey	666 So. 2d 607	440
1982	State v. Ratcliff	416 So. 2d 528	430

Showing the 15 most-cited of 2,392 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 Pascal F. Calogero Jr. on?: Pascal F. Calogero Jr. 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).