The Collaborative International Dictionary
Precedential \Prec`e*den"tial\, a. Of the nature of a precedent; having force as an example for imitation; as, precedential transactions.
All their actions in that time are not precedential to
warrant posterity.
--Fuller.
Wiktionary
a. (context legal English) Having the force of precedent.
WordNet
adj. having precedence (especially because of longer service); "precedential treatment for senior members of the firm"
Usage examples of "precedential".
Here was a case that was precedential, textbook, a once-in-a-lifetimer, permitting the imagination its fullest range, opening avenues into legal terrain previously uncharted.
He knew where the two lawyers were - still screwing around in the library, picking and scratching about in the books for precedential straws to grasp at, which at this point would be thoroughly useless.
I am not limiting my criticism merely to the intellectual or precedential weaknesses of their arguments.
Second, by making the justice look to the futureto the precedential effect this decision will have on subsequent casesit commits the justice to formulating general principles that will govern his decisions in cases whose political implications cannot now be known.
It is responsive to questions such as: What precedential weight should be given to prior decisions?
The lawyers in my court so seldom use an out-of-state or federal citation, especially one of any precedential currency.