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A departure from precedent normally only occurs if the precedent in question is thought to be incorrect or inapplicable.

This is particularly evident through the legislatures who subscribe to the Legal Realism frame of thought. These judges are more inclined to take the economic and social realities into account when departing from the precedent. When Civil Rights decisions were being made, it was these Legal Realist that made the dramatic changes in law that occurred during that time.

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