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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Nevada / Joined 1966 / Served to 1971

Jon R. Collins

Justice, Supreme Court of Nevada

Jon R. Collins was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada, who joined the court in 1966. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1923 · age 103
Tenure: 1966–1971 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1966	Supreme Court of Nevada	–	–

Education

Georgetown University

Judicial Record

In our data, Collins authored 129 published opinions for the court (1961–1970), plus 17 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: Ginnis v. Mapes Hotel Corporation (92 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. 65 of these were attributed to Collins 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
1970	Ginnis v. Mapes Hotel Corporation	470 P.2d 135	92
1969	Thompson v. State· Concurrence†	451 P.2d 704	62
1969	Price v. Sinnott· Concurrence†	460 P.2d 837	50
1970	Paramount Insurance, Inc. v. Rayson & Smitley	472 P.2d 530	47
1968	Paradise Homes, Inc. v. Central Surety and Ins. Corp.	437 P.2d 78	46
1968	Tellis v. State	445 P.2d 938	45
1967	Southern Pacific Company v. Watkins	435 P.2d 498	44
1970	Randono v. Turk	466 P.2d 218	42
1968	Mizner v. Mizner· Dissent†	439 P.2d 679	42
1967	Heffley v. State· Concurrence†	423 P.2d 666	39
1969	Oliver v. State	456 P.2d 431	38
1969	Servatius v. United Resort Hotels, Inc.	455 P.2d 621	37
1968	Barnum v. Williams	436 P.2d 219	37
1970	Bean v. State· Concurrence†	465 P.2d 133	36
1970	Brandon v. Travitsky	472 P.2d 353	33

Showing the 15 most-cited of 163 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 Jon R. Collins on?: Jon R. Collins was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada.

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5 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).