An action is deemed to be pending from the time of its commencement until its final determination upon appeal, or until the time for appeal has passed, unless the judgment be sooner satisfied.
S.D. Codified Laws § 15-1-3
Time during which action is pending
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case STATE HIGHWAY COM'N, ETC. v. Wieczorek (1976)
Most recently applied in Vitek v. Bon Homme County Board of Commissioners (August 2002)
Source: SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 33.0104.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.