The exercise of the original jurisdiction granted the Supreme Court by S.D. Const., Art. V, § 5, is reserved for the consideration of matters of prerogative, extraordinary, and general concern.
S.D. Codified Laws § 15-25-1
Matters in which original jurisdiction exercised
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Cummings v. Mickelson (1993)
Most recently applied in Rapid City Journal v. Callahan (June 2022)
Source: SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 33.0601; SL 1984, ch 12, § 10.
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.