9 U.S.C. § 6
Section 6 · Application heard as motion
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 91 court decisions — leading case Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp. (1983)
Most recently applied in Nalco Company LLC v. Laurence Bonday (July 2025)
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.
Any application to the court hereunder shall be made and heard in the manner provided by law for the making and hearing of motions, except as otherwise herein expressly provided.
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Derivation
Act Feb. 12, 1925, ch. 213, §6, 43 Stat. 884.