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Supreme Court of Nevada / Joined 1951 / Served to 1959

Charles Merton Merrill

Justice, Supreme Court of Nevada

Charles Merton Merrill was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada, who joined the court in 1951. He earned a law degree from Harvard University in 1931. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1907–1996
Tenure: 1951–1959 · 8 yrs
Education: Harvard

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1951	Supreme Court of Nevada	–	–

Education

Hope International University
Harvard University	LL.B.	1931

Judicial Record

In our data, Merrill authored 61 published opinions for the court (1951–1959), plus 2 concurrences. Most cited: In re Wright (37 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. 63 of these were attributed to Merrill 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
1959	In re Wright†	75 Nev. 111	37
1954	Bowler v. Leonard†	269 P.2d 833	21
1958	Choate v. Ransom†	74 Nev. 100	20
1954	Dolge v. Masek†	268 P.2d 919	19
1952	Western National Insurance v. Trent†	247 P.2d 208	19
1951	Jensen v. Reno Central Trades & Labor Council†	229 P.2d 908	16
1952	In Re the Estate of Ray†	245 P.2d 990	14
1952	Brownfield v. F. W. Woolworth Co.†	248 P.2d 1078	13
1951	Brown v. Lindsay†	228 P.2d 262	13
1956	State v. Corinblit†	298 P.2d 470	12
1952	In Re Wright†	248 P.2d 1080	12
1951	Cram v. Wes Durston, Inc.†	237 P.2d 209	9
1951	Kitselman v. Rautzahn†	232 P.2d 1008	8
1959	State ex rel. Department of Highways v. Second Judicial District Court†	75 Nev. 200	7
1955	Hickman v. Kline†	71 Nev. 55	7

Showing the 15 most-cited of 63 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 Merton Merrill on?: Charles Merton Merrill was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada.

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8 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).