1.   Both sides have filed hundreds of pages of court briefs, using several court precedents to back their claims.

2.   Boies argued that no state law or court precedent suggests that any recount stemming from a lawsuit contesting an election must be a statewide recount.

3.   Florida laws and court precedents paint a mixed picture.

4.   For weeks, Arpaio declined to release an internal report on the riot despite court precedent.

5.   Hammond was wrong, and Powell made a strong case for getting involved based on court precedents.

6.   He has been known for stern opinions denouncing criminals, but lawyers and judges say he is careful to respect court precedents.

7.   Here lower courts must necessarily make judgments as to how far beyond its particular facts the higher court precedent extends.

8.   Independent experts, however, say they can find no court precedent in which shield statutes have been successfully invoked to protect a source rather than a reporter.

9.   Most closely contested cases have been over relatively narrow differences of opinion about how to apply earlier court precedents to new situations.

10.   Sweeping aside years of lower court precedent, the Court said no.