Sentence examples for distinguished precedent from inspiring English sources
Still, when they make their sheepish comebacks, those who mistakenly assumed they were finished can point to a distinguished precedent.
The recent visit by La Scala takes up the distinguished precedent set in 1913, when Arturo Toscanini observed the 100th anniversary of Verdi's birth with a gala performance of this very opera.
Through his research, he has learned that the noise-bedevilled artist has distinguished precedents.
It is important to recognize, however, that the development of the law is step-by-step, case-by-case, and there are some situations in which there is a principled way to distinguish precedent from application to a new situation.
We present a model of lawmaking by appellate courts in which judges influenced by policy preferences can distinguish precedents at some cost.
May a later court avoid the result of the precedent by pointing to any general factual difference between the cases (e.g. this is real property rather than personal property, this is an implied rather than an express trust), and distinguish the precedent by stating a narrower ratio?
The quality of legal argument was high; Bacon was a "skillful, subtle intelect" capable of distinguishing the precedent brought up by Coke, while Doddridge, a member of the Society of Antiquaries, knew the records even better than Coke did.
It is often argued that reasoning by analogy and distinguishing precedents are mirror images of each other: given the facts of two cases, the question is whether there is a good reason for treating them differently (e.g. Eisenberg 1988, 87).
Justice Antonin Scalia came to the defense of radicals from another era in an apparent effort to distinguish Supreme Court precedents protecting some forms of dissent and advocacy during the cold war.
A precedent cannot be distinguished on grounds that would, in substance, imply that the precedent was wrongly decided: it must be treated as correctly decided.
The precedents are distinguished.
