Securities & Exchange Commission v. National Securities, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
665 federal appellate · 164 district · 157 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,803 later decisions (66 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2023 · most notably Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder (1976), Blue Chip Stamps v. Manor Drug Stores (1975)
665 federal appellate · 164 district · 157 state decisions — followed in 29 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. National Securities, Inc. (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1011 (§ 1 of the McCarran-Ferguson Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1012 (§ 2 of the McCarran-Ferguson Act) · 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. § 77E (§ 5 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 77R (§ 18 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 78B (§ 2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 78C (§ 3 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
Relies on J. I. Case Co. v. Borak · United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Ass'n · Securities & Exchange Commission v. C. M. Joiner Leasing Corp. · Paul v. Virginia
Cited together with Group Life & Health Insurance v. Royal Drug Co. · Union Labor Life Insurance v. Pireno · United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Ass'n · Superintendent of Insurance of State of New York v. Bankers Life and Casualty Company · United States Department of Treasury v. Fabe
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 1,803 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the relationship between the insurance company and the policyholder.”
127 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for the purpose of regulating the business of insurance,”
48 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to the extent that such business is not regulated by State law.”
30 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.