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    A case may be distinguished only if that distinction does... — Carmelics
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    Supports→In a later case, the court must decide whether the factual difference provides a better justification against the earlier decision than the facts of that case on their own.

    A case may be distinguished only if that distinction does not imply that the precedent was wrongly decided.

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    • The basic common law requirement in stare decisis is to treat earlier cases as correctly decided.
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    • 1.Common law evolution historically proceeds through 'implicit overruling,' where courts distinguish cases on grounds that logically entail the earlier decision was wrong.
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    • 2.Goodhart's own analysis of ratio decidendi shows that recharacterizing the material facts of a precedent is functionally indistinguishable from judging it wrongly decided.
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    • 3.A rule forbidding distinctions that imply error collapses into a prohibition on genuine legal development, which contradicts the acknowledged purpose of case-by-case reasoning.
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    • 1.Dworkin's 'law as integrity' permits judges to reinterpret precedents in ways that expose prior decisions as mistaken applications of underlying principles.
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    • 2.A distinction grounded in a deeper principle can simultaneously justify the new outcome and reveal the precedent's reasoning as flawed without violating stare decisis.
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    A distinction grounded in a deeper principle can simultaneously justify the new ...A rule forbidding distinctions that imply error collapses into a prohibition on ...Common law evolution historically proceeds through 'implicit overruling,' where ...Dworkin's 'law as integrity' permits judges to reinterpret precedents in ways th...
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    One obvious possibility for avoiding this problem would be to ask how the precedent court would have assessed the facts in later case. But although this would be satisfactory in theory (if sometimes difficult in practice), it again does not reflect legal practice. Courts sometimes approach the question in this way, but often they do not, and there is no legal requirement that they do so. A better response is this: the basic common law requirement in stare decisis is to treat earlier cases as cor
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