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The Nevada Reports is the official compilation of decisions issued by the Nevada Appellate Courts that have been designated by those courts for publication. These same cases are also available in the Pacific Reporter, a publication by West Publishing/Thomson Reuters. The Pacific Reporter is an unofficial publication for Nevada case law.
The Law Library's physical collections include all volumes of the Nevada Reports, Pacific Reporters, and advance opinions/sheets.
Official Reporter
Nevada Reports is the official reporter for Nevada, published by the Legislative Counsel Bureau. Court document submissions to Nevada courts should cite to the official reporter.
Legend
Text in red will help you locate the information to create a citation. Text in black is the standard abbreviation or punctuation required for a citation.
Dates
1865 - present
Reporter Abbreviation
Nev.
Nevada Citation Format (underline or italicize the party names)
Case Name, Reporter Volume Number Nev. Beginning Page Number of Case (Decision Year)
OR
Case Name, Reporter Volume Number Nev. Beginning Page Number of Case (Decision Year)
Best Practices Tip: Be consistent with citation format. Choose to either underline or italicizer case names throughout your document, not both.
Examples
State v. Osborn, 24 Nev. 187 (1898).
Goodson v. State, 115 Nev. 443 (1999).
State Dept. of Taxation v. Masco Builder Cabinet Group, 127 Nev. 730 (2011).
Regional Reporter
The regional reporter published by West Publishing/Thomson Reuters that contains Nevada decisions is the Pacific Reporter. Case citations to Nevada courts should include citations to the official reporter, Nev., followed by the unofficial/regional reporter, Pac. as a parallel citation.
Dates & Abbreviations
Cases reported in the Pacific Reporter series cover the following dates:
Pacific (P.): 1883 - 1931
Pacific second series (P.2d): 1931 - 2000
Pacific third series (P.3d): 2000 - present
Bluebook Citation Format
Case Name, Volume Number Reporter Abbreviation Beginning Page Number of Case (Court Year).
OR
Case Name, Volume Number Reporter Abbreviation Beginning Page Number Case (Court Year).
Best Practice Tip: Be consistent with citation format. Choose to either underline or italicizate case names and be consistent throughout your document.
Examples
State v. Osborn, 51 P. 837 (Nev. 1898).
Goodson v. State, 991 P.2d 472 (Nev. 1999).
State Dept. of Taxation v. Masco Builder Cabinet Group, 265 P.3d 666 (Nev. 2011).
Nevada Citation Format
Volume Number Nev., Advance Opinion Number (Year)
Examples
136 Nev., Advance Opinion 54 (2020).
135 Nev., Advance Opinion 68 (2019).
Bluebook Citation Format
Case Name, Case Number, Advance Op. at Page Number (Court, Month Day, Year opinion was issued), Webaddress for Opinion
Best Practices Tip: When citing an advance opinion from a legal research database, such as Westlaw or Lexis, use the direct link or perm link provided by the publisher.
Examples
J.E. Johns & Assocs. v. Lindberg, No. 78086, Advance Op. at 6 (Nev., August 20, 2020), http://caseinfo.nvsupremecourt.us/document/view.do?csNameID=54482&csIID=54482&deLinkID=783356&onBaseDocumentNumber=20-30683.
OR
J.E. Johns & Assocs. v. Lindberg, No. 78086, Advance Op. at 6 (Nev., August 20, 2020), http://caseinfo.nvsupremecourt.us/document/view.do?csNameID=54482&csIID=54482&deLinkID=783356&onBaseDocumentNumber=20-30683.
Not all orders/opinions issued by the Nevada Appellate Courts are "published."
(c) Form of Decision. The Supreme Court and Court of Appeals decide cases by either published or unpublished disposition.
(1) A published disposition is an opinion designated for publication in the Nevada Reports. The Supreme Court or Court of Appeals will decide a case by published opinion if it:
(A) Presents an issue of first impression;
(B) Alters, modifies, or significantly clarifies a rule of law previously announced by either the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeals; or
(C) Involves an issue of public importance that has application beyond the parties.
(2) An unpublished disposition, while publicly available, does not establish mandatory precedent except in a subsequent stage of a case in which the unpublished disposition was entered, in a related case, or in any case for purposes of issue or claim preclusion or to establish law of the case.
Subsection (c)(3) sets forth the situations when and how a party may cite unpublished decisions:
(3) A party may cite for its persuasive value, if any, an unpublished disposition issued by the Supreme Court on or after January 1, 2016. When citing such an unpublished disposition, the party must cite an electronic database, if available, and the docket number and date filed in the Supreme Court (with the notation “unpublished disposition”). A party citing such an unpublished disposition must serve a copy of it on any party not represented by counsel. Except to establish issue or claim preclusion or law of the case as permitted by subsection (2), unpublished dispositions issued by the Court of Appeals may not be cited in any Nevada court for any purpose.