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By Tom Head. Definition: Stare decisis (Latin: stand by the decision) is a legal phrase referring to the obligation of courts to honor past precedents. There are essentially two types of stare decisis. One is the obligation that trial courts have to honor the precedents of higher courts. A local trial court in Mississippi cannot legally convict a person for flag desecration, for example, because a higher court--the U.S.
No matter how sympathetic the party or how clever the lawyer, most liti-. gation is resolved by stare decisis, where the decisions of the past control the. future.1 Generally, courts apply stare decisis in one of two ways. First, courts. apply governing precedent by adopting the same legal position as the court.