Unruh v. Davison County’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2021
1 district · 11 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 John Aldens v. Maine · Conway v. Humbert · Wiersma v. MAPLE LEAP FARMS · Kyllo v. Panzer · High-Grade Oil Co., Inc. v. Sommer
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`We interpret statutes in accord with legislative intent. Such intent is derived from the plain, ordinary and popular meaning of statutory language.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`When a statute's language is clear, certain and unambiguous, our function confines us to declare its meaning as plainly expressed.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The [spates’ sovereign immunity derives from English law and was ratified in Article III, Section 2 of the United States Constitution. Alden v. Maine, 527 U.S. 706, 713 , 119 S.Ct. 2240, 2246-47 , 144 L.Ed.2d 636 (1999). The Eleventh Amendment extends the [spates' immunity from suits to those commenced by citizens of another [s]tate or citizens or subjects of a foreign country. Id. at 713 , 119 S.Ct. at 2246 , 144 L.Ed.2d 636 (citing U.S. Const amend 11). Sovereign immunity is established on a state level by Article III, Section 27 of the South Dakota Constitution: “The Legislature shall direct by law in what manner and in what courts suits may be brought against the state.” Still, this Court recognizes that sovereign immunity arises in part from the common law. Sioux Falls Constr. Co. v. City of Sioux Falls, 297 N.W.2d 454, 457 (S.D.1980) (citing High-Grade Oil Co., Inc. v. Sommer, 295 N.W.2d 736, 738 (S.D.1980)). Sovereign immunity is limited in that it only exists in the absence of consent to be sued. Cromwell v. Rapid City Police Dept., 2001 SD 100, ¶ 13 , 632 N.W.2d 20, 24 (quoting Alden, 527 U.S. at 754 , 119 S.Ct. at 2267 , 144 L.Ed.2d 636 ; citing In re Request for Opinion of the Supreme Court Relative to Constitutionality of SDCL 21-32-17, 379 N.W.2d 822, 825 (S.D.1985)).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. MASAD v. Weber
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.