How do judges of the Supreme Court of Nevada reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Nevada / Joined 1945 / Served to 1950

Charles Lee Horsey

Justice, Supreme Court of Nevada

Charles Lee Horsey was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada, who joined the court in 1945. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1880–1958
Tenure: 1945–1950 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1945	Supreme Court of Nevada	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Horsey authored 38 published opinions for the court (1946–1950), plus 4 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Teeter (69 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. 5 of these were attributed to Horsey 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
1948	State v. Teeter	200 P.2d 657	69
1947	Reno Club, Inc. v. Young Investment Co.	182 P.2d 1011	58
1946	State v. McKay	165 P.2d 389	41
1949	State Ex Rel. Culinary Workers Union, Local No. 226 v. Eighth Judicial District Court· Separate	207 P.2d 990	35
1947	Orr Ditch & Water Co. v. Justice Court of Reno Township	178 P.2d 558	34
1946	McCall v. Carlson	172 P.2d 171	24
1950	Close v. Redelius	215 P.2d 659	20
1947	Copren v. State Bar of Nevada	183 P.2d 833	20
1948	Peardon v. Peardon	201 P.2d 309	19
1949	Craig v. Harrah	201 P.2d 1081	18
1948	Nyberg v. Kirby	188 P.2d 1006	18
1947	Ex Parte Schultz· Dissent	181 P.2d 585	18
1947	Cauble v. Beemer	177 P.2d 677	18
1946	State v. Sala	169 P.2d 524	17
1946	Flyge v. Flynn	166 P.2d 539	16

Showing the 15 most-cited of 45 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 Charles Lee Horsey on?: Charles Lee Horsey was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada.

Sources

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5 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).