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359 U.S. 116

79 S. Ct. 730

Docket No. 155, Misc.

Page v. United States

Supreme Court of the United States

March 23, 1959

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1959-03-23

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

““The motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis and the petition for certiorari are granted. Upon consideration of the entire record and in view of the suggestions of the Solicitor General in his memorandum, the judgment of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit is vacated and the case is remanded to that court for further consideration, including reconsideration of petitioner’s right to appeal in forma pauperis from his 1954 conviction on the basis of a transcript of the record at the trial.””

quoted by 1 later decision, including Page v. United States

Relies on City of Los Angeles v. Public Utilities Commission of California

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Opinion by Per Curiam · Decided 1959-03-23

How this case has been cited

Cited by 33 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1987 · most notably Coppedge v. United States (1962), Breest v. Helgemoe (1978)

20 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions

1201959196019701980decided

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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Alfred Page, Sr., pro se.

Solicitor General Rankin, Assistant Attorney General Anderson, Beatrice Rosenberg and Mr. Kirby W. Patterson, for the United States.

On petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

PER CURIAM.

¶1

The motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis and the petition for certiorari are granted. Upon consideration of the entire record and in view of the suggestions of the Solicitor General in his memorandum, the judgment of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit is vacated and the case is remanded to that court for further consideration, including reconsideration of petitioner's right to appeal in forma pauperis from his 1954 conviction on the basis of a transcript of the record at the trial.

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