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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Supreme Court of Hawaii / Joined 1967 / Served to 1973

Kazuhisa Abe

Justice, Supreme Court of Hawaii

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

Lived: 1914–1996
Tenure: 1967–1973 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Abe authored 66 published opinions for the court (1967–1973), plus 17 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Santiago (256 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. 98 of these were attributed to Abe 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
1971	State v. Santiago†	492 P.2d 657	256
1973	Fujioka Ex Rel. Fujioka v. Kam†	514 P.2d 568	123
1970	Petersen Ex Rel. Petersen v. City & County of Honolulu· Dissent†	462 P.2d 1007	118
1972	Silver v. Castle Memorial Hospital· Concurrence†	497 P.2d 564	90
1973	State v. Marley†	509 P.2d 1095	86
1970	Nishi v. Hartwell· Dissent†	473 P.2d 116	57
1971	State v. Goudy· Dissent†	479 P.2d 800	56
1973	McBRYDE SUGAR COMPANY, LIMITED v. Robinson†	504 P.2d 1330	52
1967	Fleming v. Napili Kai, Ltd.†	430 P.2d 316	50
1972	State v. Kantner· Concurrence†	493 P.2d 306	48
1969	Chun v. Park†	462 P.2d 905	46
1972	Kamali v. Hawaiian Electric Co., Inc.· Concurrence†	504 P.2d 861	42
1968	State v. Abellano†	441 P.2d 333	42
1969	Dalton v. City of Honolulu· Dissent†	51 Haw. 400	40
1971	In Re the Tax Appeal of Hawaiian Land Co.†	487 P.2d 1070	39

Showing the 15 most-cited of 98 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 Kazuhisa Abe on?: Kazuhisa Abe was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii.

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6 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).