Block v. Drake’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
1 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 2024
1 district · 14 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 City of Deadwood v. Summit, Inc. · Pesicka v. Pesicka · Steinberg v. South Dakota Department of Military & Veterans Affairs · Hrachovec v. Kaarup · New Era Mining Co. v. Dakota Placers, Inc.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Block v. Drake, 2004 SD 72, ¶ 8 , 681 N.W.2d 460, 463 (citing Steinberg v. State Dep't of Military Affairs, 2000 SD 36, ¶ 6 , 607 N.W.2d 596, 599 ). This Court reviews questions of law under the de novo standard with no deference afforded the circuit court's decision. Id. (citing City of Deadwood v. Summit, Inc., 2000 SD 29, ¶ 9 , 607 N.W.2d 22, 25 ). In performing that review, we interpret statutes”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Statutory interpretation and application are questions of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“interfere with the use or enjoyment of the easement.”
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.