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** Mocked in an episode where House stops a surgery by spitting all over the sterile equipment; in case [[Viewers are Morons|the dimmer members of the audience]] didn't get the significance, [[Mr. Exposition|Nurse Exposition]] points out "There's no way we can do the surgery now!" The exasperated surgeon gives her a withering look and yells "YA THINK?!?"

** And then for some more metaphors. But these are lampshaded quite often.

** Pretty much the entire franchise does it, ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit|SVU]]'' the most painful at it, almost always using it in an As You Know/[[Idiot Ball]]/[[Writer on Board]] combo.

** Somewhat justified—lawyers have to be able to distinguish the case's meaning from the facts, and then apply it to their particular situation. And they have to be able to challenge arguments that the case they just cited shouldn't apply. And in the case of the judges, it's often done as a method of interpreting the law based on the arguments of the lawyers (and playing Devil's Advocate in the process by challenging their interpretation), which is partly what judges are ''supposed'' to do.