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The correct designation of the Chief Justice is

Chief Justice of the United States.

As written, the article would not allow the user to click on the Supreme Court link if that were simply changed, so the article would have to be slightly rewritten in order to designate the office properly.

Stone wrote several important decisions, but only one is mentioned in that article. That would not be a problem in and of itself. The case was Hansberry v. Lee, which also would not be a problem since Hansberry is a significant case (though perhaps not Stone's most significant). The problem is why Hansberry made the cut -- not because of its substance but rather because one of the parties had a daughter who wrote a significant play! That fact is worth mentioning in the article about the case itself, but really doesn't belong in the article about Stone. I'll resist the temptation to cut that line in case anyone cares to defend its inclusion.

Stone's death[edit]

The article reads that Stone is the only Supreme Court Justice who died during a court session. Technically, however, Stone suffered a stroke while presiding in open court, but was carried off the bench and did not die until several hours later. (The difference matters; I believe the court came back into session in the interim to hand down at least one 5-4 decision in which Stone's vote was dispositive.) I tried revising the sentence, but could not come up with a good wording. Suggestions? Newyorkbrad 01:55, 9 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What should have been done, is an editor check for a google news article on Stone's death. That is what I did. Stone died at his home, not while at the court.[1] I just corrected the article to state so.- William 02:49, 7 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Bot-created subpage[edit]

A temporary subpage at User:Polbot/fjc/Harlan Fiske Stone 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) 21:50, 5 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Harry S. Truman name incident[edit]

Should it be included in this article? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Truman#Truman.27s_middle_initial) if so please add it to the article as i will not be checking back on this talk page. Guitarplex (talk) 18:40, 23 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Find a Grave[edit]

The correct link to Stone at Find a Grave is [2]. It currently links to Oliver Ellsworth. Can an administrator correct it? Dr. Dan (talk) 22:46, 14 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Removed some grave details[edit]

I removed this content from the article:

His burial is said to be "quite neighborly with other Justices even after death." Four justices buried in Rock Creek "are essentially paired off." Justice Willis Van Devanter is in a family plot within 40 yards of the senior John Marshall Harlan. Chief Justice and Mrs. Harlan Fiske Stone have a "handsome memorial" within 25 yards of Stephen Johnson Field's "imposing black obelisk".

And replaced it with a simple list of the other justices who are buried nearby. The grave details of the other justices don't seem relevant to an article about Fiske. As for the quote about being neighborly: it is (a) uncited, although I take it to be from the same source as the information about the other justices' final resting places; and (b) kind of an odd thing to find in an encyclopedia, since it ascribes an attitude or disposition to a dead person.

Just dropping this here in case somebody wants to put that stuff back or argue for its inclusion. 68.33.77.181 (talk) 21:51, 9 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]