Originally Posted by GunshipGuy

Well, I disagree but do not take offense. You can reserve all the rights you want to but my point was the impression it makes. As you saw from my post, I said this was an intangible and would not/could not be cited to justify anything, but it does leave an impression. And as it's my opinion as to how this could possibly influence minds involved in resolving a grievance there is no right or wrong. And if you don't think opinions matter in such circumstances just look at the SCOTUS. They have all manners of precedence to refer to and can back any vote of theirs up with legal citations, but in the end it usually comes down to their interpretation vs someone else's.