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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Louisiana / Joined 1959 / Served to 1960

Rene A. Viosca

Justice, Supreme Court of Louisiana

Rene A. Viosca was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, who joined the court in 1959. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1890 · age 136
Tenure: 1959–1960 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1959	Supreme Court of Louisiana	–	–

Education

Tulane University of Louisiana

Judicial Record

In our data, Viosca authored 38 published opinions for the court (1947–1960), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: Arnold v. Sun Oil Co. (72 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. 16 of these were attributed to Viosca 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
1949	Arnold v. Sun Oil Co.	48 So. 2d 369	72
1960	State v. Bickham	121 So. 2d 207	48
1960	Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Louisiana Public Service Commission	118 So. 2d 372	42
1959	Skipper v. Federal Insurance Company	116 So. 2d 520	38
1960	Brown v. S. A. Bourg & Sons, Inc.	118 So. 2d 891	37
1954	Gandolfo v. Louisiana State Racing Commission	78 So. 2d 504	35
1960	Spinato v. Lowe	119 So. 2d 480	33
1960	Harwood Oil & Mining Company v. Black	124 So. 2d 764	29
1956	Thomas & Warner, Inc. v. City of New Orleans	89 So. 2d 885	28
1960	State v. Ferguson· Concurrence†	124 So. 2d 558	24
1959	State v. Morgan	116 So. 2d 682	23
1959	State Ex Rel. Department of Highways v. Barber	115 So. 2d 864	22
1959	State Ex Rel. Department of Highways v. Stoer	116 So. 2d 498	16
1960	Southern Scrap Material Co. v. Commercial Scrap Materials Corp.	120 So. 2d 491	15
1959	Missouri Pacific Railroad v. Louisiana Public Service Commission	115 So. 2d 337	15

Showing the 15 most-cited of 39 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 Rene A. Viosca on?: Rene A. Viosca was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.

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1 year 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).