Every action for wrongful death shall be commenced within three years after the death of such deceased person.
S.D. Codified Laws § 21-5-3
Limitation of actions
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Peterson, Ex Rel. Peterson v. Burns (2001)
Most recently applied in Burgard v. Benedictine Living Communities (April 2004)
Source: SL 1909, ch 301, § 3; RC 1919, § 2931; SDC 1939, § 37.2203; SL 1947, ch 173; SL 1951, ch 193; SL 1957, ch 194; SL 1963, ch 235; SL 1967, ch 149.
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.