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Supreme Court of Nevada / Joined 1989 / Served to 2007

Robert E. Rose

Justice, Supreme Court of Nevada

Robert E. Rose was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada, who joined the court in 1989. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1939 · age 87
Tenure: 1989–2007 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1989	Supreme Court of Nevada	–	–

Education

Juniata College
New York University

Judicial Record

In our data, Rose authored 138 published opinions for the court (1989–2006), plus 65 dissents and 82 concurrences. Most cited: In Re Discipline of Drakulich (169 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. 180 of these were attributed to Rose 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
1995	In Re Discipline of Drakulich· Dissent†	908 P.2d 709	169
2000	Calloway v. City of Reno· Dissent†	993 P.2d 1259	150
1998	Barmettler v. Reno Air, Inc.· Concurrence†	956 P.2d 1382	146
1998	Origel-Candido v. State· Dissent†	956 P.2d 1378	132
1991	Perez v. Las Vegas Medical Center	805 P.2d 589	123
2006	Bongiovi v. Sullivan†	122 Nev. 556	121
1990	Petersen v. Bruen· Concurrence†	792 P.2d 18	120
2005	Weber v. State· Concurrence†	119 P.3d 107	109
1991	Lord v. State	806 P.2d 548	109
1998	Dow Chemical Co. v. Mahlum	970 P.2d 98	108
1996	Hall v. SSF, INC.	930 P.2d 94	96
1998	Powers v. United Services Automobile Ass'n	962 P.2d 596	91
1994	Moody v. Manny's Auto Repair	871 P.2d 935	88
1996	Wallace v. Wallace	922 P.2d 541	84
1991	Davis v. State· Concurrence†	817 P.2d 1169	82

Showing the 15 most-cited of 285 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 Robert E. Rose on?: Robert E. Rose was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada.

Sources

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18 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).