<P> The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has stated: </P> <Dl> <Dd> A judicial precedent attaches a specific legal consequence to a detailed set of facts in an adjudged case or judicial decision, which is then considered as furnishing the rule for the determination of a subsequent case involving identical or similar material facts and arising in the same court or a lower court in the judicial hierarchy . </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> A judicial precedent attaches a specific legal consequence to a detailed set of facts in an adjudged case or judicial decision, which is then considered as furnishing the rule for the determination of a subsequent case involving identical or similar material facts and arising in the same court or a lower court in the judicial hierarchy . </Dd> <P> The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has stated: </P>

Judges use precedent to create what kind of law