Bharodia v. Pledger’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
47
cited by 47 later decisions
2
states following
February 2019
most recently cited
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 35 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Parish v. Pitts · McElroy v. Grisham · Campbell v. Campbell · Brickhouse v. Hill · State v. Mitchell
Most-quoted passages
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“We have held that there is a strong presumption of the validity of prior decisions. Bharodia v. Pledger, 340 Ark. 547 , 11 S.W.3d 540 (2000). Although we do have the power to overrule previous decisions, it is necessary as a matter of public policy to uphold prior decisions unless great injury or injustice would result. Id. The policy behind stare decisis is to lend predictability and stability to the law. Id. In matters of practice, adherence by a court to its own decisions is necessary and proper for the regularity and uniformity of practice, and that litigants may know with certainty the rules by which they must be governed in the conducting of their cases. Id. Precedent governs until it gives a result so patently wrong, so manifestly unjust, that a break becomes unavoidable. Id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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