Involuntary commitment
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case In Re the Alleged Mental Illness of Woodruff (1997)
Most recently applied in Sacred Heart Health Services v. Yankton County (November 2020)
Source: SL 1966, ch 186, § 1; SDCL §§ 27-3-1, 27-5-1; SL 1975, ch 181, §§ 1, 45; SDCL Supp, § 27-1-1.1; SL 1987, ch 197, § 2; SL 1989, ch 21, § 49; SL 1991, ch 220, § 2; SL 2012…
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.
A person is subject to involuntary commitment if:
(1) The person has a severe mental illness;
(2) Due to the severe mental illness, the person is a danger to self or others or has a chronic disability; and
(3) The person needs and is likely to benefit from treatment.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.