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I think one could build a much larger list simply by listing important Supreme Court rulings that are still in force, and then seeing which ones don't have an a
by lkrubner 5y ago
I think one could build a much larger list simply by listing important Supreme Court rulings that are still in force, and then seeing which ones don't have an article. Over the last 20 years the Supreme Court has averaged 80 rulings a year, of which perhaps a quarter have long lasting and profound implications. Over the last century there must be something over 1,000 rulings still in force and of significance. But here is a broad and inclusive Wikipedia list, which includes both Federal cases and also Supreme Court cases, and it only has about 300 cases:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_landmark_court_decisions_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_landmark_court_decisio...
That suggests there are probably a lot of cases that deserve coverage.
Also, there are many Supreme Court rulings that are no longer in force, but which need to be covered for historical reasons, of which the most notorious is probably the Dred Scott decision, followed by the horrendous Plessy v. Ferguson. Indeed, there might easily be 1,000 court cases that are no longer in force but deserve their own article. (But of course, the two cases I just mentioned do have articles in Wikipedia.)