Stare Indecisis: The Alteration of Precedent on the Supreme Court, 1946-1992The concept of precedent is basic to the operation of the legal system, and this book is a full length empirical study of why US Supreme Court justices have chosen to alter precedent. It attempts to analyse those decisions of the Vison, Warren and Burger Courts, as well as the first six terms of the Rehnquist Court a span of 47 years (1946 1992) that formally altered precedent. The authors summarize previous studies of precedent and the Court, assess