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Supreme Court of Nevada / Joined 1967 / Served to 1993

John Code Mowbray

Justice, Supreme Court of Nevada

John Code Mowbray was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada, who joined the court in 1967. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1918–1997
Tenure: 1967–1993 · 26 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1967	Supreme Court of Nevada	–	–

Education

University of Notre Dame

Judicial Record

In our data, Mowbray authored 325 published opinions for the court (1967–1992), plus 58 dissents and 14 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. 140 of these were attributed to Mowbray 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· Dissent†	747 P.2d 1380	268
1969	Brunzell v. Golden Gate National Bank	455 P.2d 31	228
1983	Beattie v. Thomas	668 P.2d 268	202
1981	Bolden v. State	624 P.2d 20	198
1980	Wilkins v. State	609 P.2d 309	117
1989	Naovarath v. State· Concurrence†	779 P.2d 944	116
1991	D'Angelo v. Gardner· Concurrence†	819 P.2d 206	113
1989	City Council of Reno v. Reno Newspapers, Inc.· Concurrence†	784 P.2d 974	73
1987	Houk v. State	747 P.2d 1376	72
1983	Oak Grove Investors v. Bell & Gossett Co.	668 P.2d 1075	72
1985	Nevius v. State	699 P.2d 1053	70
1971	State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Hinkel Ex Rel. Hinkel· Dissent†	488 P.2d 1151	67
1985	Summitt v. State	697 P.2d 1374	65
1969	White v. Yup	458 P.2d 617	64
1968	Spillers v. State· Dissent†	436 P.2d 18	62

Showing the 15 most-cited of 397 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 John Code Mowbray on?: John Code Mowbray was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada.

Sources

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26 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).