Talk:Amasa Eaton

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A fact from Amasa Eaton appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 May 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Amasa Eaton wrote the first law review article to be cited in a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2021/May. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Amasa Eaton.

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The result was: promoted by Kingsif (talk) 20:22, 18 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Eaton c. 1900

... that Amasa Eaton (pictured) wrote the first law review article to be cited in a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States? [1] (p. 788) ("This first happened in 1897 when Justice Edward White referred in his dissenting opinion ... to an article ... written by Amasa Eaton")
- ALT1:... that Amasa Eaton (pictured) was first elected to municipal government in Providence, Rhode Island, two years after graduating from Brown University? [2] ("As early as 1863, but two years after his graduation from Brown University, he was the successful candidate from his ward to the North Providence Town Council ...")

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Types Riot
Comment: Throwing in the image since I was delighted to find it, but certainly not wedded to it. By my count the article has 1691 bytes of prose at the moment, so above the limit but by no means massive. Hoping to find some more info to build it out.

Created by AleatoryPonderings (talk). Self-nominated at 03:23, 29 April 2021 (UTC).[reply]

New article, well-cited, and long enough. Both hooks work (I like the original best), and image is PD. hinnk (talk) 04:37, 12 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]