How do judges of the Supreme Court of Louisiana reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Louisiana / Joined 1949 / Served to 1954

Samuel A. LeBlanc

Justice, Supreme Court of Louisiana

Samuel A. LeBlanc was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, who joined the court in 1949. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1886–1955
Tenure: 1949–1954 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1949	Supreme Court of Louisiana	–	–

Education

Tulane University of Louisiana

Judicial Record

In our data, LeBlanc authored 15 published opinions for the court (1950–1954). Most cited: Bergeron v. Department of Highways (56 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. 9 of these were attributed to LeBlanc 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
1952	Bergeron v. Department of Highways	60 So. 2d 4	56
1954	Arkansas Fuel Oil Corp. v. Fontenot	72 So. 2d 465	18
1951	Moser v. Moser	56 So. 2d 553	18
1951	State v. Cronin	56 So. 2d 242	10
1950	Schneider v. Manion	46 So. 2d 58	8
1950	Succession of Derouen†	216 La. 957	8
1950	Bank of Baton Rouge v. Hart Estate, Inc.†	216 La. 603	6
1954	State v. Carter†	226 La. 281	3
1950	Jonesboro Lodge No. 280 of Free & Accepted Masons (F. & A. M.) v. American Central Ins.†	218 La. 403	3
1950	State v. Crittenden	49 So. 2d 418	3
1954	Sliman Realty Corp. v. Sliman's Estate†	225 La. 521	2
1950	Fried v. Edmiston†	218 La. 522	2
1951	State v. Cronin†	220 La. 234	1
1951	Moser v. Moser†	220 La. 296	1
1950	Ducros v. Williams†	217 La. 418	1

Showing the 15 most-cited of 15 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 Samuel A. LeBlanc on?: Samuel A. LeBlanc was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Sources

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5 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).