“By those terms, the liability of the defendant depends upon the occurrence of a precedent event.”

“And we are off to the races, an unending series of events each caused by the preceding event in the series.”

“Now that I've said that, allow me to apologize for the grandiloquence and pomposity of that preceding paragraph.”

“It is deemed proper to present a general description of the range of the commercial activities of Saint Louis, such as was presented in a preceding report on the internal commerce of the United States.”

“The new coach has guided the team to unprecedented levels of success.”

“The way the commercial networks ran hours and hours of news without commercial breaks has also been quite extraordinary and unprecedented.”

“Amid the austere grandeur of Highclere Castle, it was an unprecedented spectacle.”

“Nor is concern lessened because there is no opinion of the court and hence no opinion with precedential force.”

“I hasten to add that this event probably has, as the lawyers say, limited precedential effect.”

“Given that, he said, the case should be decided on grounds so narrow that the decision would have almost no precedential effect.”