Nevada Reports Comparative Tables (1988-present)

The Nevada Reports are books where important court decisions from Nevada's higher courts are published. These decisions are also printed in another book called the Pacific Reporter. This guide helps you find and update citations from early versions called Advance Opinions to the final Nevada Reports. When citing Nevada court cases, first use the Nevada Reports citation, and if needed, add the Pacific Reporter citation. If there are differences between the early and final versions, use the final one.

The Nevada Reports are 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 -- an unofficial, commercial publication of Nevada case law. This guide provides the Comparative Tables from 1988 to the present to assist researchers in checking and updating citations from the Nevada Advance Opinions (Nev. Adv. Op.) to the Nevada Reports (Nev.) when the official bound volume is published. 

In case of discrepancies between the preliminary print and the final version in the bound volumes of the Nevada Reports, the bound version controls.

For examples and guidance on citing the Advance Opinions and Nevada Reports, please refer to the Nevada Citation Guide.

The following flow chart illustrates the publication process of Nevada Appellate Court opinions:

Advance Opinion:

• Typically issued on Thursdays on the Supreme Court's website. It is possible for no opinions to be issued in any given week.
• Most Supreme Court and Court of Appeals cases are decided by "Unpublished Orders," which may be released on any day.
• The Law Library retains a collection of advance opinions in print until they are published in a volume of the Nevada Reports.

Advance Sheets:

• These are a compilation of advance opinions for a specific volume of the Nevada Reports.
• Advance sheets are not finalized, and therefore are not official, and the text of opinions may still be changed by the Appellate Courts.
  • Changes made are typically grammatical, or they address spelling or citation errors identified since the publication of the advance opinion - the substance of the opinion does not change.

Nevada Reports:

• The official publication of judicial opinions by the Nevada Supreme Court and Court of Appeals.
• Judicial opinions published in the Nevada Reports are also published unofficially in the Pacific Reporter (from Thomson Reuters West).

Follow the links below to access the Comparative Tables for volume 104 (1988) to volume 137 (2021) to convert the Advance Opinion citation to a final citation in the Nevada Reports and/or the parallel citation to the Pacific Reporter. There are no Comparative Tables in the Nevada Reports prior to 1988. This guide will be updated with the newest bound volume when it has been published. 

Please contact the Reference Desk if you need further assistance.