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    In a later case, the court must decide whether the factua... — Carmelics
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    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.

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    • A case may be distinguished only if that distinction does not imply that the precedent was wrongly decided.
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    • 1.Courts lack a neutral Archimedean standpoint from which to assess whether factual differences constitute 'better' justifications across cases.
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    • 2.Ronald Dworkin's 'gravitational force' doctrine holds that precedents bind through principle, not factual analogy, making factual comparison secondary to normative coherence.
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    • 3.Requiring factual differences to outweigh original case facts conflates empirical comparison with the normative judgment that distinguishing actually demands.
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    • 1.Frederick Schauer argues that precedent functions as a rule-based constraint precisely to insulate later decisions from case-by-case justificatory balancing.
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    • 2.If later courts must weigh factual differences against the original justification, the binding force of precedent collapses into unconstrained judicial discretion.
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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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