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Supreme Court of Louisiana / Joined 1993 / Served to 1994

Revius Ortique Jr.

Justice, Supreme Court of Louisiana

Revius Ortique Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, who joined the court in 1993. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1924–2008
Tenure: 1993–1994 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1993	Supreme Court of Louisiana	–	–

Education

Dillard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Ortique authored 101 published opinions for the court (1993–1994), plus 15 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Alexander v. Pellerin Marble & Granite (350 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 Ortique 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
1994	Alexander v. Pellerin Marble & Granite	630 So. 2d 706	350
1993	Theriot v. Allstate Ins. Co.	625 So. 2d 1337	245
1994	Wimberly v. Gatch	635 So. 2d 206	205
1993	Potter v. FIRST FEDERAL S & L ASS'N OF SCOTLANDVILLE	615 So. 2d 318	183
1993	Pinkins v. Cardinal Wholesale Supply, Inc.	619 So. 2d 52	169
1993	Taylor v. Giddens	618 So. 2d 834	155
1993	Barrie v. VP Exterminators, Inc.	625 So. 2d 1007	131
1994	Rousselle v. Plaquemines Parish School Bd.	633 So. 2d 1235	86
1993	Blair v. Tynes	621 So. 2d 591	81
1993	American Waste v. St. Martin Parish	627 So. 2d 158	60
1993	Gauthier v. O'BRIEN	618 So. 2d 825	58
1993	Bouterie v. Crane	616 So. 2d 657	55
1994	Edwards v. Conforto	636 So. 2d 901	36
1994	Ryland v. Liberty Lloyds Ins. Co.	630 So. 2d 1289	35
1993	LeBlanc v. State ex rel. Department of Transportation & Development, Office of Highways· Dissent†	626 So. 2d 1151	29

Showing the 15 most-cited of 125 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 Revius Ortique Jr. on?: Revius Ortique Jr. 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).