Sentence examples for precedential weight from inspiring English sources
I do not, of course, mean to imply that a broad constitutional rule announced without full briefing and argument necessarily lacks precedential weight.
Such a disposition has been treated by the legal system as not quite a Supreme Court decision but as considerably more than nothing, a judgment on the merits that carries a measure of precedential weight.
The Court's affirmance of the result in each of these cases was a "decision on the merits, entitled to precedential weight". Meek v. Pittenger, supra, at 366-367, n. 16.
"The decision below stands, but it has no precedential value.
If a state distinguishes between precedential and non-precedential decisions, that distinction should not affect access.
But Ms. Mayer, the Senate counsel, said: "It's a precedential matter.
9. Can Daubert hearings be given precedential value?
I hasten to add that this event probably has, as the lawyers say, limited precedential effect.
Either view, perhaps, would diminish Green's precedential significance.
