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Supreme Court of Nevada / Joined 1947 / Served to 1966

Milton Benjamin Badt

Justice, Supreme Court of Nevada

Milton Benjamin Badt was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada, who joined the court in 1947. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1884–1966
Tenure: 1947–1966 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1947	Supreme Court of Nevada	–	–

Education

Hope International University
UC Law San Francisco

Judicial Record

In our data, Badt authored 347 published opinions for the court (1947–1966), plus 6 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: Golden v. Tomiyasu (72 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. 120 of these were attributed to Badt 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
1963	Golden v. Tomiyasu	387 P.2d 989	72
1963	Short v. Hotel Riviera, Inc.	378 P.2d 979	72
1948	State v. Teeter· Concurrence	200 P.2d 657	69
1958	Magill v. Lewis	333 P.2d 717	56
1963	Thran v. First Judicial District Court	380 P.2d 297	54
1950	State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Cassinelli	216 P.2d 606	48
1948	Kress v. Corey	189 P.2d 352	48
1963	Rice v. Clark County· Dissent†	382 P.2d 605	46
1964	Dzack v. Marshall· Concurrence†	393 P.2d 610	41
1957	McColl v. Scherer	315 P.2d 807	39
1955	Corn v. French	289 P.2d 173	39
1964	Hotel Riviera, Inc. v. Short	396 P.2d 855	38
1949	State Ex Rel. Culinary Workers Union, Local No. 226 v. Eighth Judicial District Court· Dissent	207 P.2d 990	35
1960	UNITED ASS'N OF JOURN. & APP. OF PLUMBING, ETC. v. Stine	351 P.2d 965	31
1962	Alamo Airways, Inc. v. Benum	374 P.2d 684	29

Showing the 15 most-cited of 364 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 Milton Benjamin Badt on?: Milton Benjamin Badt was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada.

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19 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).