Kneip v. Herseth’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably 684 So. 2d 382 - State v. Cousan (1996), Dairyland Greyhound Park, Inc. v. Doyle (2006)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 75 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 Baker v. Carr · Snowden v. Hughes · Kusper v. Pontikes · Ray v. Blair · Shreveport v. Cole
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Laws in force at the time of the adoption of the constitutional provision, and not inconsistent therewith, remain in force until changed by the Legislature. However, laws in conflict therewith are inoperative. Mannie v. Hatfield, 1908, 22 S.D. 475 , 118 N.W. 817 ; Synod of Dakota v. State, 1891, 2 S.D. 366 , 50 N.W. 632 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“particularly ... when the construction of statutes dealing with zoning, taxation, voting or family relations presents matters involving the public interest in which timely relief is desirable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“enable parties to authoritatively settle their rights in advance of any invasion thereof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.