[1] When Nevada was admitted to the federal Union in 1864, three justices were elected to the Supreme Court for a term of six years.

[1] Despite experiencing a spectacular population boom in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, Nevada was unable for many years to establish an intermediate appellate court, like the vast majority of U.S. states.

The result was extraordinarily severe congestion at the appellate level, as all appeals must be processed through the state supreme court.

[6] The advantage of this system, of course, is that it is easier and faster to negotiate a consensus on the key points of a majority opinion among three instead of seven justices.

That is, all appeals are still filed with the Supreme Court of Nevada, but are then screened to determine whether they involve truly novel issues of law or important issues of public policy, as opposed to contentions that the trial court erred by failing to apply existing precedent.

In January 2021, it was decided by the Nevada Supreme Court to "retroactively" apply same-sex marriage (in terms of property and assets) - even before 2014 legal recognition.