How to Use stare decisis in a Sentence

stare decisis

noun

• But Thomas and Scalia differed in their approach to stare decisis – the law of precedent.
  — Jeffrey Toobin, CNN, 21 July 2021
• 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
• 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
• But the Court’s liberals can’t seem to acknowledge this as a matter of stare decisis.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 16 May 2022
• But one of the concepts that really means a lot in America is stare decisis.
  — NBC News, 1 July 2018
• In legalese, the doctrine the justices will consider on Wednesday is called stare decisis.
  — Ariane De Vogue, CNN, 30 Nov. 2021
• Justice Brett Kavanaugh asked if the court's decisions in Roe and Casey were wrong to begin with, how that would counter the stare decisis principle.
  — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 1 Dec. 2021
• The court’s doctrine of stare decisis (deference to precedent) and the lengthy appellate process serve as bulwarks.
  — Kevin Warsh, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2020
• Is stare decisis, the fancy word for the law of judicial precedent, that fungible?
  — Cristian Farias, Daily Intelligencer, 21 June 2018
• So, instead, pro-choice leaders have zeroed in on stare decisis, the doctrine of respect for past precedent.
  — Mary Ziegler, CNN, 17 May 2021
• Judge Barrett has at times been critical of stare decisis.
  — Jacob Gershman, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2020
• 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
• 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
• In his separate opinion, Roberts said the principle of stare decisis dictated his vote in the case.
  — Jeffrey Toobin, CNN, 21 July 2021
• When that happens, stare decisis is not a straitjacket.
  — Tim Dillon, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2023
• 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 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
• When the day comes that the Court reconsiders Roe, the justices will no doubt take seriously the arguments from stare decisis for leaving it be.
  — William McGurn, WSJ, 1 Oct. 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
• And Chief Justice Roberts, often thought to be the champion of stare decisis (that is, honoring precedent) silently went along.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 27 June 2018
• It's settled as a precedent of the Supreme Court entitled to respect under principles of stare decisis.
  — NBC News, 8 May 2022
• 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
• That’s because the House operates on the principle of stare decisis, a decision to stand by precedent that is also favored by US courts.
  — Heather Timmons, Quartz, 17 July 2019
• Last week, the Supreme Court was roiled by an unusually pointed disagreement about stare decisis.
  — George Will, Twin Cities, 28 June 2019
• So, again, the mantle will fall to the chief justice and the question will be whether his loyalty to precedent, to the doctrine of stare decisis, is more pronounced than his ideological leaning.
  — Andrew Cohen, The New Republic, 27 June 2018
• The issue of preserving Supreme Court precedents, a doctrine known as stare decisis, is certain to play a prominent role in the confirmation process.
  — David G. Savage, latimes.com, 3 July 2018
• These two states—the only ones to ever adopt this practice—are beseeching the court to uphold the status quo, and have filed briefs urging the court to abide by its usual rules of stare decisis, leaving precedents intact.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 28 Aug. 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

Last Updated: 14 Aug 2024