Without precedent, judicial workload would swell past workable limits.

Evidence

The labors of judges would be increased almost to the breaking point if every past decision could be reopened in every case, and one could not lay one’s own course of bricks on the secure foundation of the courses laid by others who had gone before him. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2498

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: precedent is as much an administrative-load-management device as a doctrine of justice.