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2000 where the court considered whether to overturn miranda versus arizona or to reafifirm it. in that case through chief justice rehnquist specifically we affirmed miranda zbidespite fact he had been a critic of miranda in the early days and had written opinions of it quite critical. that dickerson case is similarly precedent on precedent which is important going forward as you think about the stare decisis calculation. that's why both of those cases, planned parenthood versus casey and dickerson are cases where i would refer to them as precedent on precedent. >> so you believe it's correctly...

Decided and never been reconsidered, but casey specifically reconsidered it, applied the stare decisis factors and decided to reaffirm it. that makes casey a precedent on precedent. another example of that because you might say are there ear che cases like that, miranda. it is reaffirmed a lot but in the dickerson case chief justice rehnquist writes the opinion and reaffirming miranda. even though chief justice rehnquist by the way had been a crit critic, he decided that it had been precedent too long so he reaffirmed it. so precedent on -- >> sorry to interrupt but i wat to switch subjects. w...