Brendtro v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 2025
23 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 Cohens v. Virginia · Cohens v. Virginia · Poppen v. Walker · McCoy v. Handlin · Gloe v. Union Insurance Co.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The legislative power of the state shall be vested in a Legislature which shall consist of a senate and house of representatives. However, the people expressly reseme to themselves the right to propose measures, which shall be submitted to a vote of the electors of the state, and also the right to require that any laws which the Legislature may have enacted shall be submitted to a vote of the electors of the state before going into effect, except such laws as may be necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health or safety, support of the state government and its existing public institutions. Not more than five percent of the qualified electors of the state shall be required to invoke either the initiative or the referendum. This section shall not be construed so as to deprive the Legislature or any member thereof of the right to propose any measure. The veto power of the Executive shall not be exercised as to measures referred to a vote of the people. This section shall apply to municipalities. The enacting clause of all laws approved by vote of the electors of the state shall be: “Be it enacted by the people of South Dakota.” The Legisla ture shall make suitable provisions for carrying into effect the provisions of this section.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where a constitutional provision is quite plain in its language, we construe it according to its natural import.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“This Court will not construe a constitutional provision to arrive at a strained, unpractical or absurd result.”
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.