The highest court of a jurisdiction, e.g., the U.S. Supreme Court for the United States or a state supreme
court within its own state, can overrule a precedent even where the facts of the later case are identical
or substantially similar to the earlier case. In 1954, for example, in the famous school integration of
Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled an analogous decision it had rendered
in 1896.