106 So. 2d 430 - State Ex Rel. Moore v. Murphree’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 1986
9 state decisions
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.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The present rules of appellate procedure are of recent adoption. The former rules, like those now in effect, required payment of a filing fee, but it was set out in a rule that was disconnected with and had no relation to the statute and conforming rules of procedure that simply limit the time for commencement of appeals, which was accomplished by filing the notice of appeal. Time of performance of that act has always been jurisdictional and no discretion whatever is vested in the courts to extend it. “The situation under the present rules is different. For some unexplainable reason, doubtless by inadvertence, the present rules lump the provisions concerning the filing fee in the same rule that requires a notice of appeal to be filed within the statutory period allowed for appeal. “The legislature has the unquestioned right to fix the time for appeals. Such laws are in no sense rules of procedure. They have all of the attributes of statutes of limitation governing the commencement of actions, with the additive that the bar to appeal reaches to the jurisdiction of the appellate tribunal and is absolute rather than one which may be waived. The statute rather than the rule governs, and lack of compliance within the time limited vests in the adverse party a fundamental right personal in character. The statute is satisfied when there is brought to the attention of the adverse party, directly or constructively, the fact that within the time allowed an appeal has been commenced, an”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.