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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Nevada / Joined 1981 / Served to 1999

Charles E. Springer

Justice, Supreme Court of Nevada

Charles E. Springer was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada, who joined the court in 1981. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1928 · age 98
Tenure: 1981–1999 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1981	Supreme Court of Nevada	–	–

Education

Georgetown University

Judicial Record

In our data, Springer authored 145 published opinions for the court (1981–1999), plus 160 dissents and 53 concurrences. Most cited: Rust v. Clark County School District (268 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. 263 of these were attributed to Springer 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
1987	Rust v. Clark County School District	747 P.2d 1380	268
1991	Hilton Hotels Corp. v. Butch Lewis Productions, Inc.	808 P.2d 919	203
1995	In Re Discipline of Drakulich†	908 P.2d 709	169
1990	Petersen v. Bruen· Concurrence†	792 P.2d 18	120
1989	Naovarath v. State†	779 P.2d 944	116
1987	K Mart Corp. v. Ponsock	732 P.2d 1364	116
1991	D'Angelo v. Gardner	819 P.2d 206	113
1998	Dow Chemical Co. v. Mahlum· Concurrence†	970 P.2d 98	108
1981	Star v. Rabello	625 P.2d 90	101
1989	Miller v. State· Dissent†	779 P.2d 87	100
1991	Falline v. GNLV CORP.· Dissent†	823 P.2d 888	97
1996	Hall v. SSF, INC.· Concurrence†	930 P.2d 94	96
1998	Powers v. United Services Automobile Ass'n· Dissent†	962 P.2d 596	91
1996	McKague v. Whitley· Dissent†	912 P.2d 255	85
1996	Wallace v. Wallace· Dissent†	922 P.2d 541	84

Showing the 15 most-cited of 358 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 E. Springer on?: Charles E. Springer was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada.

Sources

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18 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).