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Supreme Court of Nevada / Joined 1967 / Served to 1981

Cameron McVicar Batjer

Justice, Supreme Court of Nevada

Cameron McVicar Batjer was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada, who joined the court in 1967. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1919–2011
Tenure: 1967–1981 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1967	Supreme Court of Nevada	–	–

Education

University of Utah

Judicial Record

In our data, Batjer authored 265 published opinions for the court (1967–1981), plus 17 dissents and 26 concurrences. Most cited: Rupert Ex Rel. Rupert v. Stienne (152 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. 97 of these were attributed to Batjer 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
1974	Rupert Ex Rel. Rupert v. Stienne	528 P.2d 1013	152
1970	Wyatt v. State	468 P.2d 338	143
1973	Turner v. Staggs	510 P.2d 879	115
1979	Deutscher v. State· Concurrence†	601 P.2d 407	79
1977	Estate of Neal Ex Rel. Delgado v. Farmers Insurance Exchange	566 P.2d 81	68
1971	State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Hinkel Ex Rel. Hinkel	488 P.2d 1151	67
1980	Apeceche v. White Pine County	615 P.2d 975	55
1975	Laakonen v. Eighth Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada Ex Rel. County of Clark· Concurrence†	538 P.2d 574	55
1981	Steelman v. Lind	634 P.2d 666	53
1972	Nevada Credit Rating Bureau, Inc. v. Williams	503 P.2d 9	52
1972	Azbill v. State	495 P.2d 1064	50
1969	Price v. Sinnott	460 P.2d 837	50
1975	Lubbe v. Barba	540 P.2d 115	47
1972	State v. Webster	504 P.2d 1316	46
1969	Lindauer v. Allen	456 P.2d 851	46

Showing the 15 most-cited of 308 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 Nevada reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Cameron McVicar Batjer on?: Cameron McVicar Batjer was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada.

Sources

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14 years on the Supreme Court of Nevada. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).