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Opinions of the Louisiana Supreme Court and the Louisiana Court of Appeal (all five circuits), 1809–present. A public-records project.
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- 352,038 opinions indexed
- 557 judges (60 currently seated)
- 1809–2026 date range
- 18 legal topics to browse
Most recent activity
All opinions →| Docket | Court | Filed | Disposition | Case |
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| 2026 CW 0556 | La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. | 2026-10-09 | Writ denied | Carolyn Peters v. Louisiana Department of Environment Quality |
| 2026 CW 1302 | La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. | 2026-10-08 | Writ denied | Penny Olinde v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Performance Food Group, Inc., and Ashle… |
| 26-KH-433 | La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. | 2026-10-07 | Writ denied | State of Louisiana Versus Willis John Lucas |
| 2026 CA 0092 | La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. | 2026-10-07 | — | Joshua Ray Hyatt v. Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections |
| 57,181-JAC | La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. | 2026-10-07 | — | State of Louisiana in the Interest of K.S. |
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- See how a case has been treated. For any opinion, see which later cases cite it — and whether they followed, distinguished, or overruled it.
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Opinions
Search and filter all 352,038 opinions in the corpus — by keyword, concept, outcome, and court.
Judges
60 currently-seated justices + judges, with per-judge dossiers covering opinion history, court split, dissent rate, and co-panelists.
Tags
Browse the 18 editorial subject-matter tags applied to Louisiana opinions so far — controlled-vocabulary topics across doctrine, subject, procedural, and posture.
About this corpus
DocketDrift Louisiana collates published opinions from the Louisiana appellate courts, normalizes them into a structured archive, and surfaces patterns for human review. Source material is in the public record; our role is collation, not interpretation.
Each opinion shows whether it has been reviewed by an editor (cyan dot) or only machine-processed (amber dot). Filtered date defaults to the last 10 years — expand to the full archive via the toggle on the search page.