19 U.S.C. § 580
Section 580 · Interest in suits on bonds for recovery of duties
Applied in 27 court decisions — leading case United States v. Great American Insurance (2013)
Most recently applied in United States v. Aegis Sec. Ins. Co. (June 2025)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Upon all bonds, on which suits are brought for the recovery of duties, interest shall be allowed, at the rate of 6 per centum a year, from the time when said bonds became due.
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Codification
R.S. §963 derived from act Mar. 2, 1799, ch. 22, §65, 1 Stat. 676.
Section was formerly classified to section 787 of Title 28 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure, by act June 25, 1948, ch. 646, §1, 62 Stat. 869.