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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Nevada / Joined 1997 / Served to 2009

William Maupin

Justice, Supreme Court of Nevada

William Maupin was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada, who joined the court in 1997. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1946 · age 80
Tenure: 1997–2009 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1997	Supreme Court of Nevada	–	–

Education

University of Arizona

Judicial Record

In our data, Maupin authored 84 published opinions for the court (1997–2008), plus 34 dissents and 96 concurrences. Most cited: Byford v. State (246 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. 183 of these were attributed to Maupin 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
2000	Byford v. State· Concurrence†	994 P.2d 700	246
2000	Calloway v. City of Reno· Concurrence†	993 P.2d 1259	150
1998	Barmettler v. Reno Air, Inc.	956 P.2d 1382	146
2001	Evans v. State· Concurrence†	28 P.3d 498	144
2004	Molina v. State†	120 Nev. 185	137
2008	M.C. Multi-Family Development, L.L.C. v. Crestdale Associates, Ltd.†	193 P.3d 536	118
2006	Ennis v. State· Concurrence†	137 P.3d 1095	118
2000	Mazzan v. Warden, Ely State Prison· Concurrence†	993 P.2d 25	110
2007	Martinez v. Maruszczak†	168 P.3d 720	109
2005	Rosky v. State†	121 Nev. 184	109
1998	Dow Chemical Co. v. Mahlum· Concurrence†	970 P.2d 98	108
2008	Lioce v. Cohen· Concurrence†	174 P.3d 970	103
2006	Mendoza v. State	130 P.3d 176	101
2007	Butler Ex Rel. Biller v. Bayer†	168 P.3d 1055	96
2005	Carter v. State	121 P.3d 592	95

Showing the 15 most-cited of 214 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 William Maupin on?: William Maupin was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada.

Sources

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12 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).