...only been given the power to decide individual cases, and their decisions were intended to be binding upon the parties to a suit as to the object of that suit. They were not intended to establish generally binding law, not even the Supreme Court when interpreting...

...constitutional status of a Supreme Court decision was still in effect, namely that it could bind only the parties to a suit as to the object of that suit. In 1858, it was Stephen A. Douglas who took the position that every pronouncement made by the Supreme...

...constitutional status of a Supreme Court decision was still in effect, namely that it could bind only the parties to a suit as to the object of that suit. In 1858, it was Stephen A. Douglas who took the position that every pronouncement made by the Supreme...

...first inaugural address. He said: "I do not forget the position, assumed by some, that constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court;...the parties to a suit, as to the object of that suit ... And while it is obviously possible that such decision may be erroneous in any given case, still...

...Address, delivered on March 4, 1861? "I do not forget the position assumed by some that constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court,...government. And while it is obviously possible that such a decision may be erroneous in any given case, still the evil effect following it, being limited to...

...Rutgers University Press, 1953), vol. Ill, p. 255 (debate with Douglas at Quincy, October 13, 1858). 419 any case, upon the parties to a suit, as to the object of that suit, . . . [and] limited to that particular case."38 What he was not obliged to accept was the principle...

...Case, in his inaugural speech, said: " I do not forget the position assumed by some that constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court, nor do I deny that such decision must be binding in any case on the parties to a suit—as to the object of that suit—while...

...Scott was "binding . . . upon the parties." In addition, the Court's decisions were "entitled to a very high respect and consideration in all parallel cases by all other departments." Even an "erroneous" decision could be followed when "the evil effect of following it, being limited...

...numbering its paragraphs) : [24] I do not forget the position assumed by some, that constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court;...decisions must be binding in any case, upon the parties to the suit, as to the object of that suit, while they are also entitled to very high respect and consideration...

...[constitutional decisions of the Supreme Court] must be binding in any case upon die parties to a suit as to die object of that suit, while they are also entitled to very high respect and consideration ... by all other departments of Government. And while it is obviously possible that such decision may...