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.. [t]he heaped-up precedents of the substantive [my italics] law swarm with trivia, with differences without substantive distinction, with repetitions that centuries ago attained the rank of platitude.
There are, of course, precedents for this sort of intact borrowing: pogrom, ukase, intelligentsia , and muzhik for example.
Finally, there are precedents for private companies developing drugs off patent.
But most Americans don't care about arcane precedents.
... [A]s Judges shelter their knavery by precedents, so do scholars their ignorance by authority: and when they cannot reason, it is safer and less disgraceful to repeat that nonsense at second hand, which they would be ashamed to give originally as their own.