Sheryl Pereira v. Terrial O'Neal

Following longstanding precedent promotes predictability in the law and protects people who have come to rely on past decisions as a guide for their behaviors. Judges are generally bound to follow these precedential decisions and apply the same Legal reasoning of those prior cases. Each court system operates Under the common law system, which is based on Precedents. Precedents are rooted in the doctrine of stare decisis, which is a Latin phrase meaning “to stand by things decided”. The United States Supreme Court applies the doctrine of stare decisis by following the rules of its prior decisions to overrule precedent. The Common law system is premised on the idea of having predictable and consistent outcomes to cases