A historical case where stare decisis was followed was Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey. Stare decisis was followed from the Roe v. Wade decision regarding a women’s right to have an abortion, to decide whether certain stipulations from Roe v. Wade were constitutional (Mitchell, 2011). Some judicial discretion should have been used while ruling using the precedent set in Roe v. Wade to make it a unique case where the .