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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Louisiana / Joined 1990 / Served to 1994

Pike Hall Jr.

Justice, Supreme Court of Louisiana

Pike Hall Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, who joined the court in 1990. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1931–1999
Tenure: 1990–1994 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1990	Supreme Court of Louisiana	–	–

Education

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Hall authored 120 published opinions for the court (1979–1995), plus 12 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Lobato (945 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. 28 of these were attributed to Hall 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. Lobato	603 So. 2d 739	945
1992	Bruno v. Harbert Intern. Inc.	593 So. 2d 357	870
1994	Louisiana Ins. Guar. Ass'n v. Interstate Fire & Casualty Co.	630 So. 2d 759	525
1991	White v. Monsanto Co.	585 So. 2d 1205	451
1993	State v. Foret	628 So. 2d 1116	406
1991	Anderson v. New Orleans Public Service, Inc.	583 So. 2d 829	391
1994	Smith v. Louisiana Dept. of Corrections	633 So. 2d 129	376
1992	Lima v. Schmidt	595 So. 2d 624	341
1994	Freeman v. Poulan/Weed Eater	630 So. 2d 733	330
1981	State v. Prestridge	399 So. 2d 564	278
1994	Brown v. Drillers, Inc.	630 So. 2d 741	277
1993	Faucheaux v. Terrebonne Consol. Government	615 So. 2d 289	259
1993	State v. Jackson	625 So. 2d 146	217
1992	Bustamento v. Tucker	607 So. 2d 532	200
1994	State v. Sanders	648 So. 2d 1272	185

Showing the 15 most-cited of 142 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 Pike Hall Jr. on?: Pike Hall Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.

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4 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).