precedent
A practice of invoking past judicial outcomes as if they were divine oracles to enchant present controversies. Executives may feel reassured, but the pitfalls never vanish. Under the guise of justice, it manipulates the shadows of history and occasionally summons unpredictable backlashes. Its weight is measured in the dust on library shelves, leaving truth to the ambiguity of a select few legal elites. The vast fragments of wisdom hoarded in courthouse archives can turn into sharp blades that wound even those who wield them.