13 U.S.C. § 13
Section 13 · Procurement of professional services
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 239 F. Supp. 757 - Lampkin v. Connor (1965)
Most recently applied in United States v. Coscia (April 2016)
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.
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