How do judges of the Supreme Court of Nevada reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Nevada / Joined 1959 / Served to 1961

Miles N. Pike

Justice, Supreme Court of Nevada

Miles N. Pike was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada, who joined the court in 1959. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1899 · age 127
Tenure: 1959–1961 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1959	Supreme Court of Nevada	–	–

Education

UC Law San Francisco

Judicial Record

In our data, Pike authored 35 published opinions for the court (1959–1961), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: City of Henderson v. Henderson Auto Wrecking, Inc. (28 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. 12 of these were attributed to Pike 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
1961	City of Henderson v. Henderson Auto Wrecking, Inc.	359 P.2d 743	28
1961	Alex Novack & Sons v. Hoppin	359 P.2d 390	19
1961	Lockart v. MacLean	361 P.2d 670	17
1960	Krick v. Krick	348 P.2d 752	16
1961	Folks v. Folks· Dissent†	359 P.2d 92	15
1961	Barreth v. Reno Bus Lines, Inc.	360 P.2d 1037	13
1961	Astorga v. Ishimatsu	359 P.2d 83	12
1960	Zahringer v. Zahringer	348 P.2d 161	12
1961	Martinez v. State	360 P.2d 836	10
1960	State v. Feinzilber	350 P.2d 399	10
1959	Houser v. Fourth Judicial District Court	345 P.2d 766	9
1960	Barra v. Dumais	356 P.2d 124	7
1961	Wolf v. Bonanza Investment Co.	360 P.2d 360	6
1960	Riff v. Kowal†	76 Nev. 271	6
1960	Baker v. Baker	350 P.2d 140	6

Showing the 15 most-cited of 36 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 Miles N. Pike on?: Miles N. Pike was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada.

Sources

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2 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).