Statute treatment: 7 U.S.C. § 2

Ranked leading cases interpreting this statute, drawn from 948 citation events across 375 distinct cases.

948citations total

375distinct interpreting cases

78distinct courts

118citations in last 5y

1937–2025year range

Top 20 leading cases

#1 Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. v. Curran (1982) scotus 756 own cites 11× in case

#2 Securities Industry & Financial Markets Ass'n v. United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (2014) dcd 20 own cites 33× in case

#3 Dunn v. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (1997) scotus 134 own cites 12× in case

#4 Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Co Petro Marketing Group, Inc., a California Corporation Harold D. Goldstein and Michael Bradley Krivacek (1982) ca9 126 own cites 12× in case

#5 Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. International Financial Services (New York), Inc. (2004) nysd 262 own cites 5× in case

#6 Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Sterling Trading Group, Inc. (2009) flsd 4 own cites 59× in case

#7 Commodity Futures Trading v. American Board of Trade, Inc. (1979) nysd 14 own cites 19× in case

#8 Ricci v. Chicago Mercantile Exchange (1973) scotus 261 own cites 4× in case

#9 United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Hunter Wise Commodities, LLC (2014) ca11 20 own cites 12× in case

#10 Samuel Friedman v. Bache Halsey Stuart Shields, Inc. Samuel Friedman v. Bache Halsey Stuart Shields, Inc. (1984) cadc 128 own cites 4× in case

#11 Eastern Vanguard Forex Ltd. v. Arizona Corp. Commission (2003) arizctapp 37 own cites 7× in case

#12 Jones v. B. C. Christopher & Co. (1979) ksd 37 own cites 6× in case

#13 Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Jack W. Savage (1980) ca9 477 own cites 2× in case

#14 Oeltjenbrun v. CSA Investors, Inc. (1998) iand 20 own cites 8× in case

#15 Salomon Forex, Inc. v. Tauber (1993) ca4 90 own cites 10× in case

#16 Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. (2010) ca2 407 own cites 2× in case

#17 Cftc v. Monex Credit Co. (2019) ca9 60 own cites 4× in case

#18 Kolbeck v. LIT America, Inc. (1996) nysd 57 own cites 4× in case

#19 Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Erskine (2008) ca6 26 own cites 6× in case

#20 Salomon Forex Inc. v. Tauber (1992) vaed 7 own cites 12× in case

Ranking method: leading_score = ln(1 + own_citation_count) × √(mentions_in_case) × flag_factor, where flag_factor = 1.0 green · 0.6 unknown · 0.5 neutral · 0.4 yellow · 0.3 procedural · 0 red. Red-flagged cases excluded — their interpretation has been undermined and shouldn't lead the list. Top 20 returned per statute. Open any case for full G Cite, trajectory, and per-circuit treatment.