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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Nevada / Joined 1935 / Served to 1947

E.J.L. Taber

Justice, Supreme Court of Nevada

E.J.L. Taber was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada, who joined the court in 1935. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1877–1947
Tenure: 1935–1947 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1935	Supreme Court of Nevada	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Taber authored 107 published opinions for the court (1935–1946), plus 6 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Plunkett (38 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. 8 of these were attributed to Taber 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
1943	State v. Plunkett	142 P.2d 893	38
1942	State Ex Rel. Groves v. First Judicial District Court Ex Rel. County of Ormsby	125 P.2d 723	28
1941	Hart v. Kline· Dissent	116 P.2d 672	28
1936	State v. Squier	54 P.2d 227	28
1937	Lamb v. Lamb	65 P.2d 872	25
1937	Ronnow v. City of Las Vegas	65 P.2d 133	25
1941	McGill v. Lewis· Separate	111 P.2d 537	23
1939	City of Reno v. Second Judicial District Court Ex Rel. County of Washoe· Concurrence	95 P.2d 994	21
1935	Washoe County Water Conservation District v. Beemer	45 P.2d 779	20
1943	Lauer v. Eighth Judicial District Court	140 P.2d 953	19
1939	State Ex Rel. Jones v. Second Judicial District Court Ex Rel. County of Washoe	96 P.2d 1096	18
1946	State v. Elsbury· Dissent	175 P.2d 430	17
1942	Ex Parte Kramer	122 P.2d 862	17
1937	Fleming v. Fleming	72 P.2d 1110	17
1944	Peterson v. Wiesner	146 P.2d 789	16

Showing the 15 most-cited of 120 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 E.J.L. Taber on?: E.J.L. Taber was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada.

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12 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).