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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Louisiana / Joined 1958 / Served to 1973

Walter B. Hamlin

Justice, Supreme Court of Louisiana

Walter B. Hamlin was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, who joined the court in 1958. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1898–1984
Tenure: 1958–1973 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1958	Supreme Court of Louisiana	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hamlin authored 300 published opinions for the court (1957–1973), plus 50 dissents and 24 concurrences. Most cited: Jordan v. Travelers Insurance Company (500 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. 215 of these were attributed to Hamlin 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
1971	Jordan v. Travelers Insurance Company· Dissent†	245 So. 2d 151	500
1971	Weber v. Fidelity & Casualty Insurance Co. of NY· Dissent†	250 So. 2d 754	333
1971	Langlois v. Allied Chemical Corporation· Dissent†	249 So. 2d 133	282
1972	Boudreaux v. American Insurance Company	264 So. 2d 621	204
1971	State v. Dotson· Dissent†	256 So. 2d 594	176
1970	Maloney v. Oak Builders, Inc.	235 So. 2d 386	162
1963	Emmons v. Agricultural Insurance Company	158 So. 2d 594	119
1970	Reymond v. State Ex Rel. Department of Highways· Concurrence†	231 So. 2d 375	114
1963	Pilie v. National Food Stores of Louisiana, Inc.· Dissent†	158 So. 2d 162	87
1961	State v. Hills	129 So. 2d 12	86
1970	State v. Lacoste	237 So. 2d 871	84
1965	Taylor v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance	178 So. 2d 238	83
1962	Perkins v. Texas and New Orleans Railroad Company· Dissent†	147 So. 2d 646	82
1964	Jones v. Continental Casualty Co. of Chicago, Ill.	169 So. 2d 50	81
1961	State Ex Rel. Department of Highways v. Levy	136 So. 2d 35	77

Showing the 15 most-cited of 386 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 Walter B. Hamlin on?: Walter B. Hamlin was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Sources

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14 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).