When the appeal is from any order subject to appeal, the Supreme Court may review all matters appearing on the record relevant to the question of whether the order appealed from is erroneous.
S.D. Codified Laws § 15-26A-10
Scope of review on appeal from order
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case People in Interest of JJ (1990)
Most recently applied in Sturzenbecher v. Sioux County Ranch, LLC (April 2025)
Source: SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 33.0710; SDCL, § 15-26-22.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.