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Case Law
Decisions rendered by courts on specific cases within a legal system that become part of the sources of law because the rules they establish have referential or binding effect on subsequent similar cases. In common law systems such decisions carry formal binding force, while in civil law systems they exert significant influence.
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In civil law systems (such as Brazil's), precedents generally are not strictly binding, but rulings by higher courts still exert significant influence on lower courts.
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