Talk:Ward Hunt

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Bot-created subpage[edit]

A temporary subpage at User:Polbot/fjc/Ward Hunt was automatically created by a perl script, based on this article at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. The subpage should either be merged into this article, or moved and disambiguated. Polbot (talk) 00:20, 5 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Untrue statement removed[edit]

I have removed the statement that Hunt never wrote a majority opinion for the Court. This is demonstrably untrue; typing "Mr. Justice Hunt delivered the opinion of the Court" into Google yields lots of Hunt majority opinions, and a Westlaw search reflects more than 100 of them. It may be the case that Hunt did not deliver any historically important opinions, but I'm not sure where the statement came from that he wrote none at all. Newyorkbrad (talk) 03:50, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Dispute[edit]

"Hunt had little impact on the court, siding with the majority in all but 22 cases in his ten years on the job and writing only four dissenting opinions."

Who was it that said Hunt had "little impact" on the court? According to The Woman Who Dared to Vote: The Trial of Susan B. Anthony (2012) by N. E. H. Hull, Hunt was responsible for 153 majority opinions, five dissents (not four like it says here) and three concurrences. He was also responsible for Life Insurance Co. v. Terry (1873) that Hull claims was influential on the later Model Penal Code and the insanity defense.

Hull actually mentions Wikipedia in her book and says that the information there is incorrect "The anonymous Wikipedia entry erroneously claimed that while serving on the Supreme Court, Hunt "wrote only four dissenting opinions and none for the majority."" (Hull 114). The bit about him not having written any opinions for the majority was at least removed.

I'm not a historian so I am reluctant to change the information myself but I feel like this is not correct. Sunny Nights (talk) 00:59, 20 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, I support adding this information. While there is evidence in the present draft for a broad claim about Hunt's impact, I would suggest adding in Hull's points to make the article a bit more complicated. N. E. H. Hull's peer-reviewed book seems like a very reliable source, so I suggest going ahead and making this change (with proper citation). 2601:410:200:41C0:75B7:E5E5:1741:A758 (talk) 19:24, 9 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Sunny Nights: Thanks for your message (thanks also to the 2601 IP; unfortunately we have no way to ping IPs). My understanding is that Hunt participated more-or-less fully in the Court's work in his early years of service; but he was active for only a few years before he was incapacitated by illness, as discussed in the article. I'm the editor who previously removed the incorrect statement about Hunt's having authored no majority opinions (see above on this page), and I'll get hold of Hull's book and see if it warrants making any further edits. Thanks, Newyorkbrad (talk) 20:28, 9 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]