As used in this chapter, “relevant evidence” means evidence having any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more or less probable than it would be without the evidence.
NRS 48.015
“Relevant evidence” defined
Applied in 80 court decisions — leading case State v. Eighth Judicial District Court ex rel. County of Clark (2011)
Most recently applied in ACOSTA (XAVIER) v. STATE (August 2025)
(Added to NRS by 1971, 780)
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.