Talk:Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States

Pagemove
Endorse. I was thinking of doing the same thing. (My hesitation was from discomfort at the number of "of"s strung in a row, but it can't be helped.) Newyorkbrad 00:28, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Dearth of sources
I have made some edits to this article in the past few months. (I am the same person as 188.182.13.238 and my IP changed because I moved house). I've been trying to find more sources for the article, but other than a document I added in this edit on 21 July my search has been mostly fruitless. There are two particular questions that I've been unable to find answers to and sources for:

Firstly, who appoints the Reporter of Decisions? Most of the articles for the individual office holders seem to suggest that either the Supreme Court as a group, or the Chief Justice individually, makes the pick. Hence this edit on 16 July, which among other things adds a "Citation needed" for who appoints the Reporter.

Secondly, which of the Reporters of Decisions edited United States Reports volumes 440-444? Before I came upon this article, the list of Reporters gave some overlapping numbers of volumes that each Reporter edited. Walter Wyatt was said to have edited volumes 322–376, his successor Henry Putzel Jr. to have edited volumes 376–449, and his successor Henry Curtis Lind to have edited volumes 440–479. This means that volume 376 and volumes 400-449 each were listed as having two different editors (Wyatt and Putzel in the former case, Putzel and Lind in the latter). Of course, there can only be one editor for each volume, so these numbers can't be right.

I checked several websites trying to find who edited which volumes, but none of them even mentioned the existence of the Reporter of Decisions. Eventually I found out that USR 376 was by Wyatt, but I forget where and how I found this information. Some time later (in this edit on 11 August), I got the idea to check the Wikipedia articles for each of the volumes 440-449. I found that the volumes 445-449 only contained cases from 1980, a year listed as being during Lind's term, which means that those volumes were his. And it leaves a smaller overlap, since now volumes 440-444 are the only ones left that still have multiple editors listed.

Can anybody find a source for which Reporter of Decisions edited which USR volumes? Or does anybody have ideas for how to narrow down which volumes were Putzel's and which were Lind's? - 212.130.152.24 (talk) 08:33, 12 September 2019 (UTC)


 * I have added a citation for "who appoints" the RofD. Regarding your question about volumes edited, Putzel edited U.S. 440-444; however, prior to succeeding Putzel, under whom he had worked as Assistant Reporter, Lind edited Supreme Court Reports, Lawyers' Edition. Drdpw (talk) 20:39, 23 February 2020 (UTC)