Nevada Evidence Statutes – 2026
Nevada has no rules of evidence. Its evidence law is STATUTE -- Title 4 of the Nevada Revised Statutes, "Witnesses and Evidence", enacted in 1971 -- and it is cited by section, "NRS 48.035", never "Nev. R. Evid." The concepts derive from early drafts of the Federal Rules of Evidence but the numbering is entirely Nevada's, spread across ten chapters: general provisions, judicial notice and presumptions (ch. 47), admissibility generally (ch. 48), privileges (ch. 49), witnesses (ch. 50), hearsay (ch. 51), documentary and other physical evidence (ch. 52), affidavits and foreign depositions (ch. 53), and three short chapters on corroborative proof of residence, findings of presumed death and tests of biological specimens (chs. 54-56). Two points of Nevada practice are worth knowing. Expert testimony runs through NRS 50.275, which admits a witness "qualified as an expert by special knowledge, skill, experience, training or education" -- and the Supreme Court of Nevada held in Hallmark v. Eldridge, 124 Nev. 492 (2008), that it "has not adopted" Daubert, treating the federal decisions as persuasive rather than controlling. Privileges are codified rather than left to the common law, and chapter 49 is the largest chapter here at 76 sections, running from lawyer-client and doctor-patient through the privileges for clergy, journalists and victims of sexual assault.
Browse all 309 rules of the 2026 edition organized by section below. Each rule includes the full text, a plain-English summary, committee notes, amendment history, and cross-references to related rules. Use the search box to find rules by keyword or number.