King v. Landguth’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2026
5 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 Bego v. Gordon · Maragos v. A.S. · Krier v. Dell Rapids Twp. · Kyllo v. Panzer · National Bank of South Dakota v. Leir
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) The nature and importance of the function the officer is performing; (2) The extent to which passing judgment on the exercise of discretion by the officer will amount necessarily to passing judgment by the court on the conduct of a coordinate branch of government; (3) The extent to which the imposition of liability would impair the free exercise of his discretion by the officer; (4) The extent to which the ultimate financial responsibility will fall on the officer; (5) The likelihood that harm will result to members of the public if the action is taken; (6) The nature and seriousness of the type of harm that may be produced; (7) The availability to the injured party of other remedies and other forms of relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Truman v. Griese“[¶ 21.] [A] ministerial act is defined as absolute, certain, and imperative, involving merely the execution of a specific duty arising from fixed designated facts or the execution of a set task imposed by law prescribing and defining the time, mode and occasion of its performance with such certainty that nothing remains for judgment or discretion, being a simple, definite duty arising un der and because of stated conditions and imposed by law. A ministerial act envisions direct adherence to a governing rule or standard with a compulsory result. It is performed in a prescribed manner without the exercise of judgment or discretion as to the propriety of the action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Truman v. Griese“such discretionary acts participate in the state's sovereign policy-making power.”) (emphasis added); Wulf, 2003 SD 105, ¶ 20 , 669 N.W.2d at 143 (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Truman v. Griese
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.