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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Louisiana / Joined 1922 / Served to 1946

Wynne G. Rogers

Justice, Supreme Court of Louisiana

Wynne G. Rogers was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, who joined the court in 1922. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1874–1946
Tenure: 1922–1946 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1922	Supreme Court of Louisiana	–	–

Education

Tulane University of Louisiana

Judicial Record

In our data, Rogers authored 1,176 published opinions for the court (1922–1946), plus 39 dissents and 19 concurrences. Most cited: Kientz v. Charles Dennery, Inc. (120 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. 148 of these were attributed to Rogers 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
1945	Kientz v. Charles Dennery, Inc.	24 So. 2d 292	120
1924	Byas v. Hotel Bentley, Inc.	103 So. 303	100
1944	McGee v. Yazoo M. v. R. Co.	19 So. 2d 21	80
1929	Borden v. Louisiana State Board of Education	123 So. 655	79
1922	Dick v. Gravel Logging Co.†	152 La. 993	73
1938	State v. Cupit	179 So. 837	70
1938	Arkansas-Louisiana Gas Co. v. Parker Oil Co.· Separate	183 So. 229	70
1941	Graham v. Jones	3 So. 2d 761	66
1943	State Ex Rel. Rathe v. Jefferson Parish School Board	19 So. 2d 153	64
1936	Kirk v. United Gas Public Service Co.	170 So. 1	63
1934	Crowe v. Equitable Life Assur. Soc.	154 So. 52	63
1928	Board of Com'rs of Caddo Levee Dist. v. Pure Oil Co.	120 So. 373	62
1942	Westwego Canal & Terminal Co. v. Louisiana Highway Commission	9 So. 2d 389	61
1943	Morales v. Employers' Liability Assur. Corp.	12 So. 2d 804	59
1940	Eusant v. Unity Industrial Life Ins., Etc., Ass'n· Dissent	196 So. 554	56

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,280 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 Wynne G. Rogers on?: Wynne G. Rogers was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.

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23 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).