Chilcott v. Globe Navigation Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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13 state decisions

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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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““We held in State ex rel. Payson v. Chapman, 35 Wash. 64 , 76 Pac. 525 , and Rice Fisheries Co. v. Pacific Realty Co., 35 Wash. 535 , 77 Pac. 839 , that, when a motion for new trial has been properly filed, the judgment will not be of final effect until the motion is determined, and that the time for taking an appeal begins to run from the date of the denial of the motion for a new trial. It follows that., if the notice of appeal is given in open court, it must be given at the time the motion for a new trial is denied, since it is then that the judgment becomes final and effective. The notice in the case at bar was not given at that time, but on December 9, one month later, the appellant appeared with a prepared formal entry called a ‘judgment,’ obtained the judge’s signature, filed the entry over the respondent’s objection, and then gave notice of appeal from the judgment so entered. The notice of appeal did not relate to the first judgment entered, and it came too late as a notice of appeal from that judgment. The real judgment in the case had been previously entered, and it became final and effective on November 9, when the motion for new trial was denied. To hold that the appellant’s notice is sufficient would in effect permit a party to voluntarily extend his own time to appeal by bringing into court and filing at his convenience a so-called judgment entry long after the statutory judgment has been entered.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wooddy v. Seattle Electric Co.