Securities & Exchange Commission v. Variable Annuity Life Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
197 federal appellate · 30 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 515 later decisions (30 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2021 · most notably United Housing Foundation, Inc. v. Forman (1975), Tcherepnin v. Knight (1967)
197 federal appellate · 30 district · 32 state decisions — followed in 11 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Appellate journey
reviewedSecurities & Exchange Commission v. Variable Annuity Life Insurance (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1011 (§ 1 of the McCarran-Ferguson Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 77A (§ 1 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 77B (§ 2 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 77C (§ 3 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 77R (§ 18 of the Securities Act of 1933)
Relies on Securities & Exchange Commission v. W. J. Howey Co. · United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Ass'n · Wilburn Boat Company v. Fireman's Fund Insurance Company · Paul v. Virginia · Abel v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 515 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all the States regulate 'annuities' under their 'insurance' laws”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]ny insurance or endowment policy or annuity contract or optional annuity contract”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“enacted for the purpose of regulating the business of insurance,”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.