Accumulate Quote by Junius

What is today supported by precedents will hereafter become a precedent.

— Tacitus

“But the fact that judges follow precedent regularly even though not invariably does not support the legalistic theory as strongly as one might expect.…

— Richard A. Posner

“the fundamental fact that law directs the ongoing of society. It is rooted in the past, determines the present, and protects the future.”

— James A. Michener

“a law is but a deduction from experience and experiment, and therefore laws must conform with historical facts, not facts with law.”

— Immanuel Velikovsky

A precedent provides legal authority for an action precisely because it occurred before.

— Ari Melber

Precedent goes in support of justice.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care…

— Jonathan Swift

Precedents once established are so much positive power.

— James Madison

Law grows, and though the principles of law remain unchanged, yet (and it is one of the advantages of the common law) their application…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The practice of law requires both continuity and growth - a deep understanding of legal principles born of reason, tradition, and experience and tested…

— Diane S. Sykes

Precedents are the disgrace of legislation. They are not wanted to justify right measures, are absolutely insufficient to excuse wrong ones. They can only…

— Laurence Sterne

Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable.

— Blaise Pascal