Talk:Number of U.S. Supreme Court cases decided by year

Requested move 25 November 2021

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The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Calidum 03:54, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

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Number of U.S. Supreme Court Cases Decided by Year → Number of U.S. Supreme Court cases decided by year – This article's name uses excessive capitalization, and the article should be moved to "Number of U.S. Supreme Court cases decided by year". The name is not a proper noun, so the words "cases", "decided", and "year" shouldn't be capitalized. Per the rules on article title formatting, we should use sentence case. 87.58.119.240 (talk) 03:04, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

Yes, I should have done this when I created this page. Randy Schutt (talk) 15:56, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

Not sure much discussion needed. WP:BOLD would have sufficed. For the record, agree (and will make a mental note to check titles when accepting AfCs). Slywriter (talk) 17:24, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

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Why by calendar year?

What was the rationale for doing this by year instead of by term? I have only ever read justices complain about this issue by term, and the same with sources describing it from afar. Moreover, the fact that the note is necessary points to this organization being unnatural. I dunno offhand when the practice started, but we know exactly when the modern terms start (First Monday) and we can figure out the last case of a term, too. lethargilistic (talk) 10:04, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

I agree that calculating these by term makes more sense. When I put this page together, I only had easy access to calendar year (no month or day) for almost all cases before 2010 (I used the Wikipedia Lists of United States Supreme Court cases by volume as my source). Also, it seemed (at least in the first century) that the cases were not listed in chronological order (see, for example, Volume 53) and volumes did not appear to correspond with terms necessarily. Instead, it appeared that the editor of United States Reports wrote up the most important cases first and saved the less important ones for later where "later" was sometimes several volumes or even years later. So some volumes of United States Reports covered many years and the cases from several years/terms were sometimes intermingled in one volume. Some of this intermingling was apparently errors in the data. I fixed those errors that I could but it still seemed there was a lot of intermingling that made sorting out the term difficult.

If you have access to a better data source or a better way to assign cases to terms, I encourage you to put together a separate page with the number by term (or redo and retitle this page). Randy Schutt (talk) 19:57, 3 March 2022 (UTC)