| The Court may have declined to review the case because its outcome seemed to be determined by recent Court precedents. |
| To make a prediction, one of the best ways is to turn to precedents according to the principle of stare decisis. |
| There are precedents setting a high barrier against prior restraint because of its inhibitory effects on freedom of expression. |
| Whereas the Stewart children had few pictorial precedents on the matter of negative exempla, a bounty of pictures represented choices being made. |
| The sixteenth-century precedents regarding female rule in England, however, remained in abeyance until Anne's reign. |
| The courts have also looked to the logical implications and extensions of their prior precedents in deciding whether a right is fundamental. |
