Roland A. Dexter and Jane K. Dexter v. The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States’s Empirical Analysis
527 F.2d 233 · 1975
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently November 2004 · most notably Levy v. Lewis (1980), United States v. Cavin (1994)
29 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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.
Relationships
Relies on Bell v. Hood · Securities & Exchange Commission v. National Securities, Inc. · Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. v. Northwestern Public Service Co. · Barrett v. United States · Fortner Enterprises, Inc. v. United States Steel Corp.
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]tate power to regulate necessarily includes the discretion to prohibit, permit, or limit insurance practices as the state sees fit . . . If the exemption is only to apply when state law squarely prohibits all acts which would, absent the exemption, violate the antitrust laws, the state regulation which the McCarran-Ferguson Act aims to foster . . . would be a nullity.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. . . An insurance company's methods of inducing people to become policyholders pertain to the company-policyholder relationship, and thus constitute an integral part of”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“and so is subject to the antitrust laws, a question we need not decide here, the very basis of the Dexters' complaint is that Equitable used the mortgage loan to coerce the purchase of an insurance policy. Forcing people to buy insurance may well be an undesirable practice--and we do not suggest that we approve of it--but it is part of”
3 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.