Rodriquez v. Williams

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that procedures to restore records “can best take place in the trial court”
• holding \we look to substance rather than to form\ of pleadings and treating a motion for new trial as a motion to suspend the appeal and to reinstate the trial court's jurisdiction over the case
• stating that reviewing courts prefer to look to substance rather than form
• Recalling witnesses may be appropriate “if a point arises upon which the parties cannot agree and the trial judge cannot remember.”
• looking “to substance rather than to form” in determining intended effect of pleading
• looking “to substance rather than to form” in determining intended effect of pleading

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).