Aware of the precedents I list above, the left is often suspicious of those tiny few with a mainstream platform.
Reverend John Hale, whose wife was accused at Salem, in his publication Modest Inquiry into the Nature of Witchcraft noted how the judges consulted for precedents and lists the 60-page publication A Tryal of Witches.
Professors Neustadt and May advised policymakers considering past precedents to make lists of similarities, differences and unknowns.
A footnote listed precedents ruling that prosecutors could not use self-incriminating statements made by a defendant before a warning.
Mr. Pylypchuk's work invokes a lively list of precedents, from Milton Avery and Alex Katz's early collages through William Wegman to Julian Schnabel as well as Paul McCarthy, Mike Kelley and Raymond Pettibon.
During the hearing, when a prosecutor, Linda Lacewell, was challenged by Judge Hittner to list the precedents requiring him to explain his reasons for his decision, she could not do so immediately.
He is aware that to write an autobiography - what he conceives as exhibiting his own portrait - may seem an act of immodesty, although he claims it would not be difficult to produce a long list of precedents.
At the end of his list of precedents he asserts: "That I am the equal or superior of some of these biographers the efforts of modesty or affection cannot force me to dissemble".
A U.S. law magazine noted how Jehovah's Witnesses had helped shape the course of constitutional law, remarking: "Through almost constant litigation this organization had made possible an ever-increasing list of precedents concerning the application of the 14th amendment to freedom of speech and religion".
In his listing of precedents, he cited numerous laws passed by Congress regulating Indian commerce; he did not cite any other case law that supported Congress' authority over internal Indian matters, because there was none.
