United States v. Kenneth N. Craig

How courts have described this case

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

• “The postage requirement is important: mail bearing a stamp gets going, but an unstamped document may linger.”
• represented prisoners may use the mailbox rule to file a notice of appeal that otherwise complies with Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 4(c)
• “Today the mailbox rule depends on Rule 4(c) . . . , [which] applies to ‘an inmate confined in an institution’ . . . . A court ought not pencil ‘unrepresented’ or any extra word into the text of Rule 4(c).”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).