easy · LSAT Reading Comprehension
Defenders of the doctrine of binding precedent rest their case chiefly on one virtue. Because courts are bound to follow earlier decisions, the law remains predictable: individuals, businesses, and lawyers can know in advance how disputes are likely to be resolved and can order their conduct and arrange their affairs accordingly, confident that the rules will not shift arbitrarily from case to case.
According to the passage, the primary benefit that defenders attribute to the doctrine of precedent is that it
- guarantees that the law's reasoning will stay clear and never grow tangled or convoluted over time.
- spurs legislatures to define legal boundaries more actively by drafting carefully worded statutes.
- lends the law a predictable stability that lets people arrange their affairs with assurance.
- ensures that mistaken rulings issued by lower courts are automatically reversed by the higher ones.
- frees individual judges to resolve each new dispute by their own personal sense of fairness.
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