that's a misuse of precedent, not a correct use of precedent.

I think it is a jolt to the legal system when you overturn precedent. ... It is not enough that you may think that a prior decision was wrongly decided,

I do think that it is a jolt to the legal system when you overrule a precedent. Precedent plays an important role in promoting stability and evenhandedness,

I do think it is a jolt to the legal system when you overrule a precedent, ... there are situations when that's a price that has to be paid.

[Roberts replied that any judge would first turn to Roe's reaffirmation in Casey.] It's a settled precedent of the court, entitled to respect under principles of stare decisis, ... And those principles, applied in the Casey case, explain when cases should be revisited and when they should not.

Judges have to have the humility to recognize that they operate within a system of precedent, shaped by other judges equally striving to live up to the judicial oath.