28 U.S.C. § 523
Section 523 · Requisitions
Amended 2 times on record
Applied in 11 court decisions — leading case First Federal Bank v. Mulder (In Re Mulder) (2004)
Most recently applied in Corcoran v. McCabe (In re McCabe) (May 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 Attorney General shall sign all requisitions for the advance or payment of moneys appropriated for the Department of Justice, out of the Treasury, subject to the same control as is exercised on like estimates or accounts by the Government Accountability Office.
Editorial notes U.S. Code · Office of the Law Revision Counsel
Statutes at Large 5 U.S.C. 319. R.S. §369. The words “General Accounting Office” are substituted for “First Auditor or First Comptroller of the Treasury” on authority of the Act of June 10, 1921, ch. 18, §304, 42 Stat. 24.
Amendments
2004—Pub. L. 108–271 substituted “Government Accountability Office” for “General Accounting Office”.