binding precedent

The decision does not set a binding precedent for any other state.

Only the majority opinion can serve as binding precedent in future cases.

District court decisions are not binding precedent at all, only persuasive.

The latest ruling is not a binding precedent in any other suit.

Therefore, this could hardly be regarded as a binding precedent.

"But for the time being, it is a binding precedent that has devastating consequences."

Before this, the only way a binding precedent could be avoided was to create new legislation on the matter.

But the decision has nonetheless set a binding precedent.

The opinion is more than 50 years old, and it is not even binding precedent.

Any court may seek to distinguish its present case from that of a binding precedent, in order to reach a different conclusion.

The binding precedent encompasses only the issues presented to the Court, not the reasoning found in the lower court's decision.

If that occurs, then the decision of the court below is affirmed, but does not establish binding precedent.

Existing binding precedent from past cases are applied in principle to new situations by analogy.

Jury trial verdicts are not, however, legally binding precedents in other cases.

Many disputes are resolved in arbitrations, which do not create binding precedents.

Binding precedent relies on the legal principle of stare decisis.

Binding precedent was only introduced into the ecclesiastical courts in the nineteenth century.

The court's published opinions are binding precedent for the conduct of courts-martial in the Army.

This is the principle of binding precedent (stare decisis) in Israel.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

A dissenting opinion does not create binding precedent nor does it become a part of case law.

So it was not a binding precedent.

Cases are so individual that the notion of a binding precedent - which is the worry aired about this one - seldom holds water.

It ought not to remain binding precedent.

International rulings can be offered as persuasive precedent, but not binding precedent.