T. M. v. University of Md. Medical System Corporation · ¶65

Thus, whether jurisdiction is appellate turns not on the specific mode of proceeding but on the nature of the relief sought. See Reed, 598 U. S., at 244 (opinion of THOMAS, J.). Scholars and jurists have long recognized that “any . . . mode in which the judgment or proceedings of an inferior tribunal c[ould] be revised” was an exercise of appellate jurisdiction. 1 Curtis §113, at 131 (emphasis added). A court therefore acts as “a court of appeal” whenever it “correct[s] the errors of other jurisdictions,” 3 Blackstone 55, whatever the mode “by which a cause is transmitted to” it, Wonson, 28 F. Cas., at 748; accord, 3 Story §1755, at 627 (“[W]here the object is to revise a judicial proceeding, the mode is wholly immaterial”).

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