For the purposes of this chapter, harasses means a knowing and willful course of conduct directed at a specific person which seriously alarms, annoys, or harasses the person, and which serves no legitimate purpose.
S.D. Codified Laws § 22-19A-4
Harasses defined
Applied in 12 court decisions — leading case State v. McGill (1995)
Most recently applied in Thompson v. Bear Runner (July 2018)
Source: SL 1992, ch 162, § 4; SL 1993, ch 176, § 4.
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.
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