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 1973 / Served to 2000

Walter F. Marcus Jr.

Justice, Supreme Court of Louisiana

Walter F. Marcus Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, who joined the court in 1973. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1927–2004
Tenure: 1973–2000 · 27 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1973	Supreme Court of Louisiana	–	–

Education

Yale University
Tulane University of Louisiana

Judicial Record

In our data, Marcus authored 1,278 published opinions for the court (1973–2000), plus 82 dissents and 34 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Smith (1,054 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. 228 of these were attributed to Marcus 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
1995	State v. Smith	661 So. 2d 442	1,054
1984	Louisiana State Bar Ass'n v. Whittington	459 So. 2d 520	625
1986	State v. Rosiere	488 So. 2d 965	544
1983	State v. Belton	441 So. 2d 1195	511
1997	State v. Ortiz	701 So. 2d 922	287
1979	Chaisson v. Domingue	372 So. 2d 1225	279
1989	Daigle v. Sherwin-Williams Co.	545 So. 2d 1005	273
1997	Theriot v. Midland Risk Ins. Co.	694 So. 2d 184	268
1996	State v. Cummings	668 So. 2d 1132	259
1982	State v. Dewey	408 So. 2d 1255	254
1986	State v. Lombard	486 So. 2d 106	253
1979	Lott v. Haley	370 So. 2d 521	246
1982	State v. Washington	414 So. 2d 313	243
1985	State v. Cann	471 So. 2d 701	238
1992	STATE, DOTD v. Williamson	597 So. 2d 439	231

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,395 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 F. Marcus Jr. on?: Walter F. Marcus Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Sources

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27 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).