Talk:United States Reports/Volume 1

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Nathan v. Virginia

There's an entry on the page that reads:

• 1 U.S. 77 (1781) Nathan v. Virginia

The OpenJurist entry places it on page 77, which is odd since as far as I can tell it doesn't appear in the scan of Volume 1, and the entries on page 77 are for 1784. Other OpenJurist entries match up with the scan. Does anyone know what's up with this? —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk) 09:55, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

As soon as I wrote this, I went to page 77 to add a link to it, and I realized that in fact the case is included in the text of McCarty v. Nixon because it's relevant to that case. I'm going to remove that entry since it doesn't link to an existing page and since the page it would link to is entirely included in another page. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk) 10:01, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

@CalendulaAsteraceae: Amusingly, I saw this right after I finished fixing the transcription of that case and it's insanely long footnote. I've been working through the text from the beginning over the last little bit... I'm not marking them as 'proofread', though, because I'm making enough edits (between fixing all the long s nonsense, fixing the sidenotes, and occasionally adding entire missing lines) that it really does need to be read over again.

Stuff I am doing, specifically...

reading the text against the (better) scan at https://hdl.handle.net/2027/msu.31293023333481

where that's still not for certain, checking the Lawyer's Edition at https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015012843481

using curly quotes, since that seems to be what most already are

changing footnotes to standard format, and moving them out of page footers

fixing thousands and thousands of broken italic f's and long s's

fixing (and explicitly not transcluding) the sidenotes

Some other things that need done....

redirects from the case citation names (for M'Carty v. Nixon, for instance, 1 U.S. 77, 1 Dall. 77, and 1 L.Ed. 44)

disambigs for the ones that are on the same page in whatever edition

• See the table in the Lawyer's Edition at https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015012843481?urlappend=%3Bseq=17 and following pages

wikilink references to Blackstone (Commentaries on the Laws of England), since it's on ws... it is referenced inline as "1 Blacks. Comm 23." or suchlike.

move (if consensus) mainspace pages to subpages, either way fix headers on all the case pages to the correct court, etc.

implement {{AuxTOC}}, divide the thing into the actual sections (before revolutionary war, after revolutionary war, etc) on subpages so we can fix cases randomly having or not having the name of the court, whatever the consensus on how to do so.

Jarnsax (talk) 10:41, 16 July 2021 (UTC)