1 U.S.C. § 108
Section 108 · Repeal of repealing act
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case McGrath v. United States (1962)
Most recently applied in In re Metro Subway Accident Referral (December 1984)
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.
Whenever an Act is repealed, which repealed a former Act, such former Act shall not thereby be revived, unless it shall be expressly so provided.