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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Supreme Court of Hawaii / Joined 1982 / Served to 1992

Yoshimi Hayashi

Justice, Supreme Court of Hawaii

Yoshimi Hayashi was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii, who joined the court in 1982. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1923–2006
Tenure: 1982–1992 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1982	Supreme Court of Hawaii	–	–

Education

George Washington University

Judicial Record

In our data, Hayashi authored 74 published opinions for the court (1982–1992). Most cited: Parnar v. Americana Hotels, Inc. (238 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. 70 of these were attributed to Hayashi 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
1982	Parnar v. Americana Hotels, Inc.†	652 P.2d 625	238
1983	First Ins. Co. of Hawaii v. State†	665 P.2d 648	109
1987	State v. Estrada†	738 P.2d 812	106
1985	State v. Tanaka†	701 P.2d 1274	85
1988	State v. Kam†	748 P.2d 372	78
1990	State v. Hoglund†	785 P.2d 1311	63
1990	State v. Pemberton†	796 P.2d 80	53
1987	Bertelmann v. Taas Associates†	735 P.2d 930	49
1984	State v. Ortiz†	683 P.2d 822	46
1983	Beamer v. Nishiki†	670 P.2d 1264	42
1990	Kauhane v. Acutron Co., Inc.†	795 P.2d 276	41
1985	State v. Kim†	711 P.2d 1291	41
1991	State v. Taniguchi†	815 P.2d 24	36
1984	State v. Rodrigues†	679 P.2d 615	36
1983	Survivors of Wallace Medeiros v. Maui Land & Pineapple Co.†	660 P.2d 1316	36

Showing the 15 most-cited of 74 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 Yoshimi Hayashi on?: Yoshimi Hayashi was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii.

Sources

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10 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).