What Donofrio pointed out was not a footnote. It was the actual text of the decision, and it had the reference specifically removed - an alteration of the actual text of the decision that has been there since 2008 and has been corrected sometime after June 21st, when the Google cache still had it with the reference edited out.
The footnote you mentioned doesn’t include the name of the case because it is several cases lumped together in one grouping - and the actual text of the Brown v Bd of Education decision refers to them simply as being the earliest cases after the 14th Amendment. So it is not reasonable for you to equate those 2 situations. Nothing that would indicate that it was a “site-wide problem”.
And just for the sake of accuracy, the Google cache that you linked to for Brown v Bd of Education was from yesterday, not “a few days ago”. Looking at the text from yesterday, I saw no instances where a case was referenced simply by a number, with the title of the case edited out. That argues AGAINST it being a “site-wide problem”, as you suggested.
The footnote you mentioned doesn’t include the name of the case because it is several cases lumped together in one grouping
Then look at the Miranda case.
This is how it looks now, and this is an archive of the same page I grabbed from Archive.org from 2009.
If I were a conspiracy nut, I would wonder why they edited out the name of the Cohens v Virginia case...if I were a conspiracy nut.
The same thing happened to me on another thread after I mentioned that when I and many other Freepers were in school that we were taught that a Natural Born Citizen was a person born in the country with two citizen parents. First I was attacked and ridiculed and told to provide a textbook that backed what I was saying up. I replied that I had been searching for textbooks from the time period that might have been used during the time that I went to school but that they were very difficult to find.
I received more ridicule and comments that there were “truckloads” of them available on Amazon. I replied that the poster must have been much better at searching Amazon than I was and to please post links to civics textbooks from the time period from the 1950s through the mid 1970s. I received a half dozen links, I followed every one, but not one was a link to a civics textbook from the time period asked for. One of the books linked to was from 1890 and was available free in Kindle format. It didn't have even one reference to “natural born” anywhere in it. The other books were from 1920 through 1930. It was a complete waste of my time. It was all grandstanding and an attempt to gain legitimacy by posting irrelevant links. Amazon does not appear to have any civics textbooks from the time period when I attended school. Even the obots here could not find one.
I am highly offended by some of the remarks that have been made here by freedomwarrior998. If you would like to get to know where he or she is coming from take a look at http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:freedomwarrior998/index?tab=comments;brevity=full;options=no-change. Even the posts that I generally agree with are worded in such a nasty way that I have a difficult time reading them without feeling angry. freedomwarrior998, in my opinion your abrasive writing style completely overpowers any point you are trying to make. I don't think being a bully is an effective way to win people over to your point of view.