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 1959 / Served to 1967

Cable Wirtz

Justice, Supreme Court of Hawaii

Cable Wirtz was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii, who joined the court in 1959. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1910–1980
Tenure: 1959–1967 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1959	Supreme Court of Hawaii	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Wirtz authored 26 published opinions for the court (1960–1967), plus 7 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Cummings (54 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. 33 of these were attributed to Wirtz 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
1967	State v. Cummings†	423 P.2d 438	54
1962	Midkiff v. Castle & Cooke, Inc.†	368 P.2d 887	54
1963	Young v. Price†	388 P.2d 203	44
1964	Young v. Price· Dissent†	395 P.2d 365	43
1964	Richards v. Midkiff†	396 P.2d 49	41
1960	State v. Foster†	354 P.2d 960	35
1965	Bulatao v. Kauai Motors, Ltd.· Dissent†	406 P.2d 887	33
1962	State v. Tamanaha†	377 P.2d 688	33
1964	Peters v. Jamieson· Concurrence†	397 P.2d 575	30
1964	State v. Heirs of Halemano Kapahi†	395 P.2d 932	30
1966	Kawauchi v. Tabata	413 P.2d 221	27
1960	Yokochi v. Yoshimoto†	353 P.2d 820	27
1965	Guanzon v. Kalamau†	402 P.2d 289	22
1966	Lyon v. Bush· Concurrence†	412 P.2d 662	21
1962	State v. Gager†	370 P.2d 739	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 36 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 Cable Wirtz on?: Cable Wirtz was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii.

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8 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).