1. It is this Court's prerogative alone to overrule one of its precedents;Bosse V Oklahoma;But cf. Amy Coney Barrett, Precedent and Jurisprudential Disagreement, 91 TEX. L. REV. 1711,2013
2. At the very least, such decisions help to reveal the priorities of at least four Justices (because granting review requires only four votes);Margaret Meriwether;quoting Eugene Gressman, The National Court of Appeals: A Dissent,1957