Sentence examples for weight precedent from inspiring English sources

She later described the rulings as "settled law, entitled to all the weight precedent usually gets".

Perhaps so, but the weight of precedent is growing.

The weight of precedent certainly would have backed Mr. Johnson up.

The deadlock meant the Maryland ruling would stand, although it had no weight as precedent.

The native uprightness of their sentiments will not be bent under the weight of precedent and authority.

His position on Roe v. Wade is the only one he can take in today's atmosphere, and I accept his pledge to give weight to precedent and keep an open mind.

But after Justice William O. Douglas recused himself because an excerpt from one of his books had appeared in Grove's magazine, Evergreen Review, the case ended in a 4-to-4 deadlock, which had the effect of affirming a ruling in Maryland that the film was obscene but which had no weight as precedent except in Maryland.

Summarizing the decision from the bench on Monday, Justice Ginsburg explained the court's "standard practice" in such circumstances: "We affirm the court of appeals' exercise of jurisdiction, but we issue no opinion on the point and our disposition of the question carries no weight as precedent".

"This court believes that the prevailing wage law could benefit the people of New York and does not see wisdom in the mayor's zeal for the possibility of welcoming to New York City a business that would pay its building service employees less than the prevailing wage," Justice Wright wrote, while adding that "whatever my sympathies," the weight of precedent was clearly on the administration's side.

Through what mechanisms does convention spread "by weight of precedent"?

On her view, a convention is a pattern of behavior reproduced within a population due largely to weight of precedent.