1 U.S.C. § 101
Section 101 · Enacting clause
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case In Re Crowthers McCall Pattern, Inc. (1990)
Most recently applied in In re Dekroon (July 2018)
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.
The enacting clause of all Acts of Congress shall be in the following form: “Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled.”