The part of the sentence 'constitute a precedent' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when an event or decision will potentially set a standard for future similar events or decisions. For example: "The court's decision to grant the plaintiff's claim in this case could constitute a precedent for similar cases in the future."
In itself, it constituted a fundamental precedent for the later development of European constitutional monarchies.
While legal experts may be divided over whether the decision constitutes a significant precedent, some suggest that it nevertheless demonstrates that courts are beginning to engage in nuanced thinking about Internet-related cases.
Even aside from the obvious fact that I did not commit fraud, and thus couldn't sign on to any such thing, to do so would have also constituted a dangerous precedent, and it would have endangered my colleagues each of whom could now have been depicted as a former associate of a convicted fraudster.
Concluding that the Look Tin Sing decision constituted a controlling precedent in the Ninth Circuit, Judge Morrow ruled that subject to the jurisdiction thereof referred to being subject to U.S. law (the first of the two proposed interpretations).
However, this case has been appealed to the Supreme Court, and their decision, when handed down, will constitute a very important judicial precedent.
There is a great risk that, when the time comes, this dubious practice will be claimed by many as an acquired right, and it will therefore constitute an extremely dangerous precedent as far as the farmers of our countries are concerned.
All the same, Glanville argued, custom and precedent together constitute a knowable common law, a delicate handling of what, during the reign of Henry II, had become a vexing question: Can a law be a law if it's not written down?
Florida argues that, under Supreme Court precedent, a dog sniff does not constitute a Fourth Amendment search requiring probable cause.
