T. M. v. University of Md. Medical System Corporation · ¶61

When a party asks one court to revise another’s judgment, he invokes what the Constitution calls “appellate Jurisdiction.” Art. III, §2, cl. 2. Appellate jurisdiction is a court’s “power to revise the judgments rendered” by other courts. 1 J. Kent, Commentaries on American Law 353 (11th ed. 1867) (Kent); accord, 3 W. Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 56 (1768) (Blackstone) (“reverse judgments in certain suits originally begun in [another] court”); ibid. (high court had appellate jurisdiction to correct “mistake[s] of the law, committed by [other] courts”); W. Rawle, A View of the Constitution 241 (2d ed. 1829) (Rawle) (“revision of the [decisions] of other courts”); 3 Story 626 (power to “revis[e] and correc[t] the proceedings in a cause already instituted”); 1 G. Curtis, Commentaries on the Jurisdiction, Practice, & Peculiar Jurisprudence of the Courts of the United…

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