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motion for rehearing

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 81 U.S. 15 - Steings v. Franklin County · 1871Most cited · 38 citing opinions

Such a motion is not founded in a matter of right, but rests in the sound discretion of the court. Matters resting in the discretion of a subordinate court cannot be assigned for error in an appellate court.

How often courts cite the case defining “motion for rehearing”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “motion for rehearing” — 38 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.