Matton Steamboat Co. v. Murphy

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining the importance of statutes limiting the 9 | period for appeal to a definite point of time
• stating the purpose of Rule 4 is “to set a definite point of time when litigation shall be at an end, unless within that time the prescribed application has been made; and if it has not, to advise prospective appellees that they are freed of the appellant’s demands”
• purpose of statutes limiting period for appeal is to set definite point of time when litigation shall end
• construing Fed. R. A. P. 4[a]

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

53 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Coleman v. Thompson
  Supreme Court· 1991-09-13· cited 12,560×
• Gonzalez v. Thaler
  Supreme Court· 2012-01-10· cited 3,668×
• Browder v. Director, Dept. of Corrections of Ill.
  Supreme Court· 1978-02-21· cited 3,383×
• R.E. Rodgers and Barbara Rodgers v. James G. Watt, Secretary of the Interior of the United States of America
  Ninth Circuit· 1983-12-16· cited 271×
• Schacht v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-25· cited 265×
• Jose Luis Pena v. Seguros La Comercial, S.A.
  Ninth Circuit· 1985-09-04· cited 265×
• Federal Trade Commission v. Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co.
  Supreme Court· 1952-12-22· cited 263×
• Hill v. Hawes
  Supreme Court· 1944-01-03· cited 136×
• Robert K. Oja v. Department of the Army
  Federal Circuit· 2005-04-28· cited 121×
• Merced Hernandez-Rivera and Carlota Garcia-Vasquez v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
  Ninth Circuit· 1980-10-23· cited 115×
• Redfield v. Continental Casualty Corp.
  Seventh Circuit· 1987-05-06· cited 84×
• Paul L. Fitzsimmons v. Howard Yeager, Principal Keeper of the New Jersey State Prison at trenton,n.j. And the State of New Jersey
  Third Circuit· 1968-02-19· cited 72×
• United States v. Franke Eugenio Martinez
  Tenth Circuit· 1982-06-24· cited 71×
• United Artists Corp. & L.P.A.A., Marcello Danon v. La Cage Aux Folles, Inc.
  Ninth Circuit· 1985-09-17· cited 71×
• Cerullo v. Derwinski
  Veterans Claims· 1991-04-04· cited 66×
• Magda Marin Piazza v. Awilda Aponte Roque
  First Circuit· 1990-07-25· cited 58×
• United States v. Erskine Hartwell
  Fourth Circuit· 2006-05-24· cited 51×
• Frank Gunther Et Ux. And Ethel and Oscar Heath v. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Company
  Fourth Circuit· 1958-05-23· cited 46×
• Blake v. Rupe
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1982-09-14· cited 45×
• Ex Parte Farrell
  First Circuit· 1951-06-08· cited 44×

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Department of Banking of Neb. v. Pink
  Supreme Court· 1942-12-21· cited 84×
• Cardona v. Quinones
  Supreme Court· 1916-02-21· cited 40×