12 U.S.C. § 1715
Section 1715 · Statistical and economic surveys
Amended 7 times on record
Applied in 111 court decisions — leading case Commissioner v. Tufts (1983)
Most recently applied in 2021 IL App (2d) 190462 - Freedom Mortgage Corp. v. Olivera (August 2021)
Cases citing this section usually also cite 12 U.S.C. § 1701 · 42 U.S.C. § 1441 · 28 U.S.C. § 1491
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. 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.
The Secretary shall cause to be made in connection with the insurance programs such statistical surveys and legal and economic studies as he shall deem useful to guide the development of housing and the creation of a sound mortgage market in the United States, and shall publish from time to time the results of such surveys and studies. Expenses of such studies and surveys, and expenses of publication and distribution of the results of such studies and surveys, shall be charged as a general expense of such insurance fund or funds, as the Secretary shall determine.
Editorial notes U.S. Code · Office of the Law Revision Counsel
Amendments
1967—Pub. L. 90–19 substituted “Secretary” for “Commissioner” wherever appearing and inserted “in connection with the insurance programs” after “made”.
1965—Pub. L. 89–117 struck out “or account or accounts,” after “fund or funds,”.
1961—Pub. L. 87–70 substituted “shall be charged as a general expense of such insurance fund or funds, or account or accounts, as the Commissioner shall determine” for “shall be charged as a general expense of the Fund, the Housing Fund, and the Defense Housing Insurance Fund in such proportion as the Commissioner shall determine”.
1950—Act Apr. 20, 1950, substituted “Commissioner” for “Administrator” wherever appearing.
1941—Act Mar. 28, 1941, substituted “Fund, the Housing Fund, and the Defense Housing Insurance Fund” for “Fund and the Housing Fund”.
1938—Act Feb. 3, 1938, inserted “and the Housing Fund in such proportion as the Administrator shall determine” after “Fund”.
Cross References
General Insurance Fund, establishment of, see section 1735c of this title.