Davis v. Oklahoma Employment Security Commission

T1 Anglo-American law teaches that all judicial decisions in a system must conform to the precedential pronouncements of its highest court.1 In Oklahoma the tribunal accorded that status for noneriminal cases is her Supreme Court.2 Only those pronouncements by the Court of Civil Appeals which are declared to be precedential by the Supreme Court may claim precedential status.3

12 Under serutiny here for conformity to precedent is an opinion by the Court of Civil Appeals (COCA). A three-judge panel of that court, which considered this ease, carved out an exception to this court's precedential…