Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc. v. Manning’s Empirical Analysis
578 U.S. 374 · 2016
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 10 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably Seaboard Air Line Railway Co. v. Watson (1927), Doscher v. Sea Port Group Securities, LLC (2016)
28 federal appellate · 10 district · 10 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.
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1719 (Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 715I · 15 U.S.C. § 717U · 15 U.S.C. § 77V (§ 22 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 78A (§ 1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 78B (§ 2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 80A · 15 U.S.C. § 80B
Relies on Gully v. First Nat. Bank in Meridian · Shamrock Oil & Gas Corp. v. Sheets · Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. Thompson Ex Rel. Thompson · Romero v. International Terminal Operating Co. · United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co.
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That is, federal jurisdiction over a state law claim will lie if a federal issue is: (1) necessarily raised, (2) actually disputed, (3) substantial, and (4) capable of resolution in federal court without disrupting the federal-state balance approved by Congress.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“has found that statutory term satisfied in either of two circumstances. Most directly, and most often, federal jurisdiction attaches when federal law creates the cause of action asserted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“even when 'a claim finds its origins' in state law, there is 'a special and small category of cases in which arising under jurisdiction still lies.'”
2 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.