Humana Inc. v. Mary Forsyth et al.’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
134 federal appellate · 42 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 465 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Forshey v. Principi (2002), Randolph v. IMBS, Inc. (2004)
134 federal appellate · 42 district · 36 state decisions
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
reviewedForsyth v. Humana, 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. § 2 (§ 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 41 (§ 1 of the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914) · 18 U.S.C. § 1961 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1964 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1144 (§ 514 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Shaw v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. · United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Ass'n · Securities & Exchange Commission v. National Securities, Inc. · Paul v. Virginia · 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 465 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No Act of Congress shall be construed to invalidate, impair, or supersede any law enacted by any State for the purpose of regulating the business of insurance, or which imposes a fee or tax upon such business, unless such Act specifically relates to the business of insurance ....”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]o weaken, to make worse, to lessen in power, dimmish, or relax, or otherwise affect in an injurious manner”; and”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“15 U.S.C. § 1012 (b). In order for the McCarran-Ferguson Act to reverse preempt a federal law, (1) the state statute must have been enacted for the purpose of regulating the business of insurance, (2) the federal statute in question must not specifically relate to the business of insurance, and (3) the application of the federal law would”
9 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.