Sherman v. Sawyer

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “the Rules of Civil Procedure cannot be used to extend the jurisdiction of the circuit court”
• acknowledging that the legislature is the branch empowered to enact laws and to declare what the law shall be
• defining jurisdiction as a “court’s power to decide a case or issue a decree”
• defining jurisdiction as a “court’s power to decide a case or issue a decree”
• interpreting the statutory phrase “exclusive jurisdiction” according to its “general and common usage”
• “court is bound by the plain, clear and unambiguous language of the statute”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

23 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Richardson v. City and County of Honolulu
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1994-02-18· cited 166×
• State Ex Rel. Bronster v. Yoshina
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1997-01-28· cited 57×
• County of Hawai'i v. C & J Coupe Family Ltd. Partnership
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2008-12-24· cited 49×
• Gillan v. Government Employees Insurance Co.
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2008-10-29· cited 48×
• Schwartz v. State.
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2015-11-19· cited 38×
• Survivors of Wallace Medeiros v. Maui Land & Pineapple Co.
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1983-03-09· cited 36×
• Alaka'i Na Keiki, Inc. v. Matayoshi
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2012-05-11· cited 33×
• Kang v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1991-07-24· cited 31×
• Tamashiro v. Department of Human Services
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2006-10-27· cited 26×
• In Re the Determination & Declaration of the Heirs of Keamo
  Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals· 1982-09-14· cited 24×
• In re 'Īao Ground Water Management Area High-Level Source Water Use Permit Applications
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2012-08-15· cited 18×
• Tax Appeal of County of Maui v. KM HAW.
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1996-04-30· cited 13×
• Alaka'i Na Keiki, Inc. v. Hamamoto
  Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals· 2011-05-24· cited 9×
• In Re Brandon
  Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals· 2006-12-08· cited 9×
• Kahalewai v. Rodrigues
  Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals· 1983-08-04· cited 8×
• Doe v. Roe
  Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals· 1993-09-28· cited 8×
• Gibb v. Spiker
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1986-05-08· cited 7×
• Honbo v. Hawaiian Insurance & Guaranty Co.
  Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals· 1997-11-28· cited 6×
• Williamson v. Hawai'i Paroling Authority
  Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals· 2000-11-22· cited 5×
• Hussey v. Say
  Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals· 2014-04-23· cited 2×