Courses Quote by Samuel Johnson

Every lawyer of experience comes to know (more or less unconsciously) that in the great majority of cases, the precedents are none too good…

— Jerome Frank

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

Precedent goes in support of justice.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect.

— Horace Mann

Precedents once established are so much positive power.

— James Madison

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

— Tacitus

One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.

— Junius

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

— Ari Melber

I know my judicial role is further constrained by careful adherence to precedent.

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

I Do not Follow Precedent, I Set New Precedents for Others to Follow.

— Anton Singh

It is a law, that every event depends on some law.

— John Stuart Mill

As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent, it is devoutly wished on my part, that these…

— George Washington