Justice Stevens opined that the Court's precedent required it to strike down Nevada's stop-and-identify law.

These are serious contentions on both sides, but they do not alter our conclusion that our precedent... requires the result we reach.

Accordingly, our precedent requires that the statute include a health exception.

The toccata acted as a salute to the Duke; according to Donington, if it had not been written, precedent would have required it to be improvised.

The Social Security Administration said legal precedent required that the review go back only to 1983, when the suit was filed.

The court's precedents required an individual inquiry rather than a categorical declaration, he said.

In both cases, the majority engaged in an unusually detailed examination of the record and concluded that the court's own precedents required a ruling for the defendant.

With the court's precedents requiring that abortion restrictions include an exception for medical necessity, the outcome of these cases may depend on how the majority defines necessity.

They lamented the "pointless metaphysical investigation" that the Supreme Court's precedents require of those seeking software patents.

Ms. Kunstler said legal precedent in New York required that anyone arrested be brought before a judge within 24 hours.