Plain errors or defects affecting substantial rights may be noticed although they were not brought to the attention of the court.
NRS 178.602
Plain error
Applied in 65 court decisions — leading case Valdez v. State (2008)
Most recently applied in YOUNG (ANDREW) v. STATE (October 2025)
(Added to NRS by 1967, 1458)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Nevada Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Nevada statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.