State v. Mesa’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2026
9 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Stirone v. United States · United States v. Johnson · State v. Ball · State v. Heftel · State v. Moran
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e determine “whether there is sufficient evidence in the record which, if believed by the jury, is sufficient to sustain a finding of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt; in making this determination, the Court will accept the evidence, and the most favorable inference fairly drawn therefrom, which will support the verdict.” State v. Owen, 2007 SD 21, ¶ 35 , 729 N.W.2d 356, 367 (quoting State v. Mesa, 2004 SD 68, ¶ 9 , 681 N.W.2d 84, 87 ). “A guilty verdict will not be set aside if the state’s evidence and all favorable inferences that can be drawn therefrom support a rational theory of guilt.” State v. Swalve, 2005 SD 17, ¶ 5 , 692 N.W.2d 794, 797 (quoting State v. Phair, 2004 SD 88, ¶ 16 , 684 N.W.2d 660, 665 (quoting State v. Downing, 2002 SD 148, ¶ 22 , 654 N.W.2d 793, 800 )).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Owen · State v. Ryan“Failure to raise an issue before the trial court can constitute waiver of the issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.