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Supreme Court of Nevada / Joined 1985 / Served to 2003

Clarence Clifton Young

Justice, Supreme Court of Nevada

Clarence Clifton Young was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada, who joined the court in 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1922 · age 104
Tenure: 1985–2003 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1985	Supreme Court of Nevada	–	–

Education

Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Young authored 101 published opinions for the court (1979–2002), plus 50 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: McKay v. Board of Sup'rs of Carson City (167 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. 76 of these were attributed to Young 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
1986	McKay v. Board of Sup'rs of Carson City	730 P.2d 438	167
2000	Calloway v. City of Reno· Separate†	993 P.2d 1259	150
1998	Origel-Candido v. State	956 P.2d 1378	132
1989	Naovarath v. State· Dissent†	779 P.2d 944	116
1991	Falline v. GNLV CORP.· Concurrence†	823 P.2d 888	97
1991	Davis v. State	817 P.2d 1169	82
1989	City Council of Reno v. Reno Newspapers, Inc.· Dissent†	784 P.2d 974	73
2000	Hollaway v. State· Dissent†	6 P.3d 987	66
1996	Wolff v. Wolff	929 P.2d 916	65
1998	Bemis v. Estate of Bemis· Dissent†	967 P.2d 437	60
1998	Steese v. State	960 P.2d 321	59
1987	Fire Insurance Exchange v. Zenith Radio Corp.	747 P.2d 911	58
1993	Canape v. State	859 P.2d 1023	56
1992	Topaz Mutual Co. v. Marsh· Dissent†	839 P.2d 606	54
2001	Leonard v. State	17 P.3d 397	52

Showing the 15 most-cited of 164 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 Clarence Clifton Young on?: Clarence Clifton Young 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).