if a supreme court justice were to argue using a precedent, he or she might cite other cases that came to similar conclusions.
In a precedent argument, situations that are similar or dissimilar will be shown. Argument from precedent is a type of case based reasoning where citing a specific case used in an attempt to argue for changing a current rule, or adding a new rule to add to existing rules.
Cherry tells Ponyboy that not only money separates Socs from greasers, but that greasers have different sets of values, (according to Cherry, Socs are more sophisticated, opposed to the greaser who are more emotional).