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338 U.S. 833

Docket No. 1, Misc.

Docket No. 26, Misc.

Docket No. 37, Misc.

Docket No. 42, Misc.

Docket No. 60, Misc.

Docket No. 67, Misc.

Docket No. 103, Misc.

Walker v. Ragen

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided October 10, 1949

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1949-10-10

1 counsel of record

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“The petition for writ of certiorari in each of these cases is denied without consideration of the questions raised therein and without prejudice to the institution by petitioner of proceedings in any Illinois state court of competent jurisdiction under the Act of August 4, 1949 * * *.”

quoted by 1 later decision, including United States ex rel. Peters v. Ragen

Relies on The People v. Rohde

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1949-10-10

How this case has been cited

Cited by 25 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1975 · most notably Gusik v. Schilder (1950), Jennings v. State of Illinois La Frana (1951)

18 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

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¶1Petitioners pro se. Ivan A. Elliott, Attorney General of Illinois, William C. Wines, James C. Murray and Raymond S. Sarnow, Assistant Attorneys General, for respondent in No. 1, Misc.

¶2Criminal Court of Cook County, Illinois;

¶3Circuit Court of Winnebago County, Illinois;

¶4Circuit Court of Will County, Illinois;

¶5Supreme Court of Illinois (reported below: 403 Ill. 41, 85 N. E. 2d 24);

¶6Criminal Court of Cook County, Illinois;

¶7Circuit Court of Randolph County, Illinois; and

¶8Criminal Court of Cook County, Illinois. The petition for writ of certiorari in each of these cases is denied without consideration of the questions raised therein and without prejudice to the institution by petitioner of proceedings in any Illinois state court of competent jurisdiction under the Act of August 4, 1949, entitled: “An Act to provide a remedy for persons convicted and imprisoned in the penitentiary, who assert that rights guaranteed to them by the Constitution of the United States or the State of Illinois, or both, have been denied or violated, in proceedings in which they were convicted.” Laws of Illinois, 1949, p. 722.

¶9Mr. Justice Douglas took no part in the consideration or decision of these applications.

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