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

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Supreme Court of Hawaii / Joined 1967 / Served to 1974

Bernard Levinson

Justice, Supreme Court of Hawaii

Bernard Levinson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii, who joined the court in 1967. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1967–1974 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1967	Supreme Court of Hawaii	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Levinson authored 69 published opinions for the court (1967–1974), plus 32 dissents and 17 concurrences. Most cited: Rodrigues v. State (273 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. 118 of these were attributed to Levinson 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
1970	Rodrigues v. State· Concurrence†	472 P.2d 509	273
1974	State v. Kaluna†	520 P.2d 51	215
1974	Leong Ex Rel. Petagno v. Takasaki· Concurrence†	520 P.2d 758	176
1969	Ellis v. Crockett†	451 P.2d 814	143
1970	Stewart v. Budget Rent-A-Car Corporation†	470 P.2d 240	118
1967	Hatsumi Yoshizaki v. Hilo Hospital†	433 P.2d 220	117
1969	Lemle v. Breeden†	462 P.2d 470	106
1967	State v. Texeira†	433 P.2d 593	106
1972	Silver v. Castle Memorial Hospital· Concurrence†	497 P.2d 564	90
1970	State v. Rocker· Dissent†	475 P.2d 684	76
1971	State Ex Rel. Commissioner of Securities v. Hawaii Market Center, Inc.†	485 P.2d 105	73
1974	Aguiar v. Hawaii Housing Authority†	522 P.2d 1255	72
1974	State v. Pokini†	526 P.2d 94	65
1972	State v. Kahinu†	498 P.2d 635	57
1968	Harada v. Burns†	445 P.2d 376	56

Showing the 15 most-cited of 118 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 Hawaii reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Bernard Levinson on?: Bernard Levinson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii.

Sources

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7 years on the Supreme Court of Hawaii. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).