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76 U.S. 603

Public Schools v. Walker

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided December 1, 1869

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1869-12

<p>This case was argued at an earlier part of the term; and the court, after advisement, having announced its judgment of affirmance,† Messrs. Blair and Dick, for the plaintiffs in error, now submitted, without oral argument, a printed brief, asking for rehearing and setting forth certain points of the case, including a fundamental fact, on which a? they conceived, the court had fallen into misapprehension.</p> <p>Having taken time to examine the brief,</p>

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

““Where the court does not on its own motion order a rehearing, it will be proper for counsel to submit without argument, as has been done in the pres ent instance, a brief written or printed petition or suggestion of tbe point or points thought important. If upon such petition or suggestion any judge who concurred in the decision thinks proper to move for a rehearing, the motion will be considered. If not so moved, the rehearing will be denied as of course.””

quoted by 3 later decisions, including Brooks v. Raynolds, Smith v. Davis

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Petition denied / appeal dismissed · 8–0 · Decided 1869-12

How this case has been cited

Cited by 30 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1943 · most notably United States v. Mayer (1914), Bronson v. Schulten (1881)

11 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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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¶1Where counsel desire to have a case reheard, they may — if the court does not, on its own motion, order a rehearing — submit without argument, a brief written or printed petition or suggestion of the point or points which they think important. If upon such petition or suggestion any judge who concurred in the decision thinks proper to move for a rehearing the motion will be considered. If not so moved, the rehearing is denied as of course.

¶2This case was argued at an earlier part of the term; and the court, after advisement, having announced its judgment of affirmance,Messrs. Blair and Dick, for the plaintiffs in error, *604now submitted, without oral argument, a printed brief, asking for rehearing and setting forth certain points of the case, including a fundamental fact, on which a? they conceived, the court had fallen into misapprehension.

¶3Having taken time to examine the brief,

¶5The CHIEF JUSTICE

¶6now delivered' the opinion of the court.

¶7No member of the court who concurred in the judgment desires a reargument, and the petition must, therefore, be denied.

¶8The rule on this subject, long since established, was stated by Chief Justice Taney at the December Term, 1852, in these words:

“ No reargument will be granted in any case unless a member of the court who concurred in the judgment desires it, and when that is the case it will be ordered without waiting for the application of counsel.'’

¶9The grounds of this rule were fully explained in that case, and need not be restated.*

¶10Where the court does not on its own motion order a rehearing, it will be proper for counsel to submit without argument, as has been done in the present instance, a brief written or printed petition or suggestion of the point or points thought important. If upon such petition or suggestion any judge who concurred in the decision thinks proper to move for a rehearing the motion will be considered. If not so moved the rehearing will be denied as of course.

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