25 U.S.C. § 201
Section 201 · Penalties; how recovered
Applied in 25 court decisions — leading case 217 F. Supp. 2d 59 - Shekoyan v. Sibley International Corp. (2002)
Most recently applied in Michele Yates v. Pinellas Hematology & Oncology, P.A. (December 2021)
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.
All penalties which shall accrue under title 28 of the Revised Statutes shall be sued for and recovered in an action in the nature of an action of debt, in the name of the United States, before any court having jurisdiction of the same, in any State or Territory in which the defendant shall be arrested or found, the one half to the use of the informer and the other half to the use of the United States, except when the prosecution shall be first instituted on behalf of the United States, in which case the whole shall be to their use.
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References in Text
Title 28 of the Revised Statutes, referred to in text, was in the original “this Title”, meaning title 28 of the Revised Statutes, consisting of R.S. §§2039 to 2157. For complete classification of R.S. §§2039 to 2157 to the Code, see Tables.
Codification
R.S. §2124 derived from act June 30, 1834, ch. 161, §27, 4 Stat. 733.
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
Parties, see rule 17, Title 28, Appendix, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.