I'd like to help standardize'''' and expand Wikipedia's collection of U.S. Supreme Court cases and U.S. Supreme Court Justices.
I'm thinking that each case page should contain the following headings:
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- Introduction and Overview. and brief description highlighting the impact of the case on American judicial history and jurisprudence.
- Members of the Court, and which of the opinions in the case they wrote and/or joined.
- Facts of the case. A brief background of the facts, only so much as is necessary to understand the case (or more, if particularly interesting.)
- Legal rule for which the opinion is significant.
- Analysis. Why is the case important? What problems did this resolve (or create?) What have scholars written or said about the case?
- Odds & Ends. Whatever happened to Carrie Buck, for instance.
- External links to the text of the case at Findlaw, Cornell LII, etc.
The page for each Justice should contain:
- Introduction and Overview including birth/death years, years served on the Court, and other stub-like features.
- Biography.
- Analysis of the Justice's impact on the court.
- Notable decisions.
- Fun facts.
Too much electronic law related information is behind closed doors on paid services - Westlaw and Lexis. This could be a valuable resource for students and laypeople. Please post below if you are interested in joining me.
--PrinceValium 04:27, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)