Bennett v. Yoshina

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that where several state officials were “sued in his or her official capacity, the suit can properly be seen as an action against the state itself”
• Noting that Ninth Circuit case law limits “judicial consideration of legislative history that is not contained in official committee reports” in cases dealing with “judicial examination of legislative history as an aid to statutory interpretation”[.]
• “This does not mean, however, that every state employee therefore speaks for the state.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Gillan v. Government Employees Insurance Co.
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2008-10-29· cited 48×
• Bennett v. Yoshina
  Ninth Circuit· 2001-08-07· cited 29×
• Peer News LLC v. City and County of Honolulu.
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2016-06-09· cited 21×
• State v. Braverman
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2016-06-01· cited 9×
• Peltier v. Almar Management, Inc.
  D. Hawaii· 2017-01-17· cited 2×
• Mark J. Bennett v. Dwayne D. Yoshina
  Ninth Circuit· 2001-08-07

Cites

31 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Hensley v. Eckerhart
  Supreme Court· 1983-05-16· cited 17,202×
• Anderson v. City of Bessemer City
  Supreme Court· 1985-03-19· cited 11,658×
• United States v. United States Gypsum Co.
  Supreme Court· 1948-03-08· cited 9,383×
• County of Washington v. Gunther
  Supreme Court· 1981-06-08· cited 510×
• Jack Walters & Sons Corp. v. Morton Building, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 1984-06-22· cited 168×
• J.H. McQuiston v. John O. Marsh, Jr., Secretary of the Army, United States Army Missile Command
  Ninth Circuit· 1983-06-09· cited 111×
• American Constitutional Party, Libertarian Party, Bicentennial Reality Party, and Socialist Workers' Party v. Ralph Munro, Secretary of State
  Ninth Circuit· 1981-07-06· cited 101×
• Victoria Posada v. Lamb County, Texas
  Fifth Circuit· 1983-10-11· cited 95×
• Kasza v. Browner
  Ninth Circuit· 1998-01-08· cited 93×
• Goehring v. Brophy
  Ninth Circuit· 1996-09-03· cited 81×
• State v. Fields
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1984-08-14· cited 79×
• Hertzberg v. Dignity Partners, Inc.
  Ninth Circuit· 1999-08-27· cited 78×
• Bennett v. Yoshina
  Ninth Circuit· 1998-03-27· cited 68×
• United States v. An Chyi Liu, A/K/A Fat Frank, and Ai-Ti-Ting, A/K/A Eddie
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-04-30· cited 60×
• Stauble v. Warrob, Inc.
  First Circuit· 1992-10-13· cited 50×
• Antonio R. Durando Naomiann N. Durando v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1995-11-16· cited 49×
• Iranian Students Association v. Dr. Granville M. Sawyer, President, Texas Southern University
  Fifth Circuit· 1981-03-16· cited 46×
• Arnie Rolf Braafladt v. The Board of Governors of the Oregon State Bar Association
  Ninth Circuit· 1985-12-26· cited 27×
• HAWAII STATE AFL-CIO v. Yoshina
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1997-03-24· cited 26×
• United States v. Robert Martinez
  Ninth Circuit· 1999-07-12· cited 25×