U.S. courts are latitudinarian! In English courts, this doctrine is taken strictly, while U.S. courts have adopted a more lax, “latitudinarian” version that allows the court to depart whenever “. . . the evil resulting from a continuation of the accepted rule [would produce] a greater mischief” [Fox v. Snow, 6 NJ 12, 25, 76 A.2d 877, 844 (1950)]