Every person unlawfully committed, detained, confined or restrained of his or her liberty, under any pretense whatever, may prosecute a writ of habeas corpus to inquire into the cause of such imprisonment or restraint.
NRS 34.360
Persons who may prosecute writ
Applied in 23 court decisions — leading case Bryant v. State (1986)
Most recently applied in Rugamas v. Eighth Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada ex rel. County of Clark (July 2013)
[1:93:1862; B § 349; BH § 3671; C § 3744; RL § 6226; NCL § 11375]—(NRS A 1967, 1469; 1969, 106)
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.