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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Supreme Court of Hawaii / Joined 1951 / Served to 1959

Ingram Macklin Stainback

Justice, Supreme Court of Hawaii

Ingram Macklin Stainback was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii, who joined the court in 1951. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1883–1961
Tenure: 1951–1959 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1951	Supreme Court of Hawaii	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Stainback authored 138 published opinions for the court (1952–1959), plus 5 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Halberg v. Young (52 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. 55 of these were attributed to Stainback 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
1957	Halberg v. Young†	41 Haw. 634	52
1954	Howell v. Associated Hotels, Ltd.	40 Haw. 492	30
1955	Francone v. McClay	41 Haw. 72	28
1952	Fraser v. Blue Cross An. hosp.S.	39 Haw. 370	27
1955	Welsh v. Campbells.	41 Haw. 106	24
1953	Chang v. Meaghers.	40 Haw. 96	23
1957	Kamau Ex Rel. Lovell v. County of Hawaii	41 Haw. 527	22
1954	Carreira v. Territory of Hawaii	40 Haw. 513	22
1954	Re Sprinkle Chow Liquor License	40 Haw. 485	22
1959	Advertiser Publishing Co. v. Fase†	43 Haw. 154	21
1956	Kamanus. v. E.E. Black, Ltd.	41 Haw. 442	21
1952	Territory v. Alford	39 Haw. 460	19
1952	Hartmann v. Bertelmann†	39 Haw. 619	18
1954	Territory of Hawaii v. Fasi	40 Haw. 478	17
1958	Akana v. Damon· Dissent†	42 Haw. 415	15

Showing the 15 most-cited of 147 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 Ingram Macklin Stainback on?: Ingram Macklin Stainback 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).