Supreme Court rulings are modeled internationally.

 Endowed with a relatively unique capacity to extend beyond its national borders, American law serves to persuasively guide sister jurisdictions, who look to this emerging jurisprudence for inspiration in treading uncharted legal territory. Thus, for instance, Canadian courts 5 - and certainly the Israeli Supreme Court - have been known to routinely cite U.S. jurisprudence when tackling novel juridical issues. 6 In fact - for better or for worse - it is not uncommon to see a significant portion of leading Supreme Court judgments in both these countries dedicated to a survey of the American approach to previously unaddressed challenging issues of law.