The Las Vegas Review-Journal’s Judicial Performance Evaluation has long relied on anonymous attorney ratings as a metric to rank judges in Clark County.

This year, the Review-Journal is partnering with the nonprofit Our Nevada Judges to provide another data point to the public: error rates that measure how frequently a higher court decides that a judge made an erroneous ruling.

These errors frequently result in reversals — when an appellate court overturns a judge’s previous decision.

The Nevada Supreme Court or the state Court of Appeals also can consider writ petitions, which are like appeals for cases that are ongoing. A high court granting such a petition is ruling in favor of the litigant challenging a judicial decision and would be counted as a judicial error.

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