How to Use stare decisis in a Sentence

stare decisis

noun
  • Flood lost because of stare decisis.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 2 Mar. 2026
  • In this sense, Roe can likewise be a good test of a nominee’s views on stare decisis.
    — William McGurn, WSJ, 2 July 2018
  • But the third decision is stare decisis - - court precedent and how much the court respects that.
    — Fox News, 6 July 2018
  • But Thomas and Scalia differed in their approach to stare decisis – the law of precedent.
    — Jeffrey Toobin, CNN, 21 July 2021
  • There is no way to replace who sits on the courts quickly or change conservative disdain for stare decisis.
    — Brynn Tannehill, The New Republic, 10 Apr. 2023
  • But one of the concepts that really means a lot in America is stare decisis.
    — NBC News, 1 July 2018
  • But the Court’s liberals can’t seem to acknowledge this as a matter of stare decisis.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 16 May 2022
  • Is stare decisis, the fancy word for the law of judicial precedent, that fungible?
    — Cristian Farias, Daily Intelligencer, 21 June 2018
  • Again, if Thomas held more normal beliefs about stare decisis, this wouldn’t really be an issue.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 19 May 2022
  • Despite this, the justices still declined to overturn the exemption on stare decisis grounds.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 21 Sep. 2023
  • In legalese, the doctrine the justices will consider on Wednesday is called stare decisis.
    — Ariane De Vogue, CNN, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Its roots in the Constitution give the concept of stare decisis greater weight simply because a judge might want to on a whim.
    — Stavros Agorakis, Vox, 5 Oct. 2018
  • And one person's stare decisis is another person's bad precedent.
    — James Brown, USA TODAY, 26 June 2022
  • The court’s doctrine of stare decisis (deference to precedent) and the lengthy appellate process serve as bulwarks.
    — Kevin Warsh, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2020
  • The high court has a tradition, known by its Latin name stare decisis, of standing by its previous decisions.
    — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 28 June 2018
  • In his separate opinion, Roberts said the principle of stare decisis dictated his vote in the case.
    — Jeffrey Toobin, CNN, 21 July 2021
  • Last week, the Supreme Court was roiled by an unusually pointed disagreement about stare decisis.
    — George Will, Twin Cities, 28 June 2019
  • But even beyond this term’s cases, the Court’s approach to stare decisis has huge implications for our profession.
    — Sam Needleman, The New York Review of Books, 7 Jan. 2023
  • While stare decisis is a powerful force against the granting of review, the court sometimes revisits and reverses its own precedent.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Its roots in the Constitution give the concept of stare decisis greater weight such that precedent can’t be trimmed or narrowed simply because a judge might want to on a whim.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 3 May 2022
  • When criticizing this decision, legal pundits have been entranced by stare decisis, the legal doctrine that states a court will abide by precedent.
    — Daniel Weinberger, Scientific American, 24 May 2021
  • It's settled as a precedent of the Supreme Court entitled to respect under principles of stare decisis.
    — NBC News, 8 May 2022
  • And defending Griswold as a matter of stare decisis would be much different than defending Roe.
    — Adam J. White, WSJ, 23 May 2022
  • In overruling a critical aspect of Teague, the majority follows none of the usual rules of stare decisis.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 19 May 2021
  • There are decent arguments, rooted in stare decisis, on why a Roberts court would be unwise to overturn Roe—or at least refrain from doing it all at once.
    — William McGurn, WSJ, 2 July 2018
  • While both sides await an official final ruling in Dobbs, the future of stare decisis as a stabilizing doctrine also appears to be on the line.
    — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 2 June 2022
  • First, there's the legal principle of stare decisis, a Latin term that refers to standing by previous rulings when deciding a similar case.
    — Kevin McCoy, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Chief Justice John Roberts begrudgingly joined with the court’s four liberals at the time out of deference to stare decisis.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 28 July 2021
  • The reason is the power of stare decisis, or precedent, and how conservatives view the role of the Court in supporting the credibility of the law.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 2 July 2018
  • The reason is the power of stare decisis (or precedent), and how conservatives view the role of the Court in supporting the credibility of the law.
    — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 3 July 2018

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