Explore: Stare Decisis

common law legal systems, precedent operates under the principle of stare decisis ("to stand by things decided"), where past judicial decisions serve

powerful manner that his attendant stare decisis analysis immediately assumed canonical authority." Brandeis wrote: Stare decisis is usually the wise policy,

right to abortion, the majority abandons stare decisis, a principle central to the rule of law. 'Stare decisis' means 'to stand by things decided.' ..

to apply in deciding each new case. Common law is deeply rooted in stare decisis ("to stand by things decided"), where courts follow precedents established

undemocratic judiciary in a democratic republic. On the subject of stare decisis, referring to Brown v. Board of Education, the decision overturning

on the doctrine of stare decisis. Dissenting in Casey, Rehnquist criticized the Court's "newly minted variation on stare decisis", and asserted "that

focused on constitutional law, originalism, statutory interpretation, and stare decisis. Her academic work has been published in the Columbia, Cornell, Virginia

judicial circuit (vertical stare decisis) and, to a lesser degree, the issuing Court of Appeals (horizontal stare decisis)—published district court opinions

to overrule precedent; according to Scalia, "he does not believe in stare decisis, period". By October 1, 2012, he had written 475 opinions, including

were ruled to be unconstitutional. However, under the principle of stare decisis, a lower court that enforces a statute of a kind previously declared