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Supreme Court of Nevada / Joined 1977 / Served to 1985

Noel Edwin Manoukian

Justice, Supreme Court of Nevada

Noel Edwin Manoukian was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada, who joined the court in 1977. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1938 · age 88
Tenure: 1977–1985 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1977	Supreme Court of Nevada	–	–

Education

University of the Pacific
Santa Clara University

Judicial Record

In our data, Manoukian authored 131 published opinions for the court (1974–1985), plus 11 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: Collins v. Union Federal Sav. & Loan Ass'n (139 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. 49 of these were attributed to Manoukian 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
1983	Collins v. Union Federal Sav. & Loan Ass'n	662 P.2d 610	139
1979	Deutscher v. State	601 P.2d 407	79
1977	Lipshie v. Tracy Investment Co.	566 P.2d 819	78
1979	Rae v. All American Life & Casualty Co.	605 P.2d 196	65
1979	Seim v. State	590 P.2d 1152	60
1981	Branda v. Sanford	637 P.2d 1223	58
1983	Robert E. v. JUSTICE COURT OF RENO TP.	664 P.2d 957	55
1979	Ferdie Sievers, Etc. v. Diversified Mortg.	603 P.2d 270	54
1984	Hay v. Hay	678 P.2d 672	52
1978	McMichael v. State	577 P.2d 398	52
1981	Hotel Riviera, Inc. v. Torres· Concurrence†	632 P.2d 1155	51
1979	Cirac v. Lander County	602 P.2d 1012	45
1977	Dearman v. State	566 P.2d 407	45
1980	Anaya v. State· Concurrence†	96 Nev. 119	44
1981	Hern v. State	635 P.2d 278	42

Showing the 15 most-cited of 157 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 Noel Edwin Manoukian on?: Noel Edwin Manoukian was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada.

Sources

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8 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).