Matters of fact
Applied in 29 court decisions — leading case Round Hill General Improvement District v. Newman (1981)
Most recently applied in 141 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 19 - VIRGIN VALLEY WATER DIST. v. PARADISE CANYON, LLC (April 2025)
(Added to NRS by 1971, 777)
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.
1. The facts subject to judicial notice are facts in issue or facts from which they may be inferred.
2. A judicially noticed fact must be:
(a) Generally known within the territorial jurisdiction of the trial court; or
(b) Capable of accurate and ready determination by resort to sources whose accuracy cannot reasonably be questioned,
Ê so that the fact is not subject to reasonable dispute.
Official source: Nevada Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Nevada statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.