State v. Mesa’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 113 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably 152 Ohio St. 3d 368 - State v. Banks-Harvey (2018), State v. Grubb (2010)
2 federal appellate · 113 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 65 Ohio St. 3d 403 - State v. Hathman
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“require[d] that open compartments of the vehicle are to be searched!,]’ and that locked compartments shall not be opened,’ ” and concluding that “[b]y its very terms, this language does not prohibit officers from searching closed compartments!,]” but only prohibits opening those ''that are locked”). 8 . Notably, the Matthews court distinguished our decision in Salmon, emphasizing — as we have above — that there,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.