Editing Precedent (section)

===Judicial resistance===
Occasionally, lower court judges may explicitly state a personal disagreement with the rendered judgment, but are required to rule a particular way because of binding precedent.<ref>See, e.g., [https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=1195909351234664885 ''State Oil Co. v. Khan''], 93 F.3d 1358 (7th Cir. 1996), in which Judge Richard Posner followed the applicable Supreme Court precedent, while harshly criticizing it, which led the Supreme Court to overrule that precedent in ''[[State Oil Co. v. Khan]]'', 522 U.S. 3 (1997); see also the concurring opinion of Chief Judge Walker in [https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=1895782534423575000 ''National Abortion Federation v. Gonzalez''], 437 F. 3d 278 (2d Cir. 2006).</ref> Inferior courts cannot evade binding precedent of superior courts, but a court can depart from its own prior decisions.<ref>See, e.g., [http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=502&invol=197 ''Hilton vs. Carolina Pub. Rys. Comm'n.''], 502 U.S. 197, 202, 112 S. Ct. 560, 565 (1991)("we will not depart from the doctrine of stare decisis without some compelling justification").</ref>