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You get a client. The facts and the law are in the favor of your client.

You go to trial. You win. Your adversary appeals.

Appellate Court: You win. Your adversary appeals.

State Supreme Court: You win. Your adversary appeals to the USSC. (Same thing with Federal Appellate Court)

Your client is running out of money.

You go before the USSC. All six of the majority and their law clerks know you're right. Even on Originalist Doctrine.

And SCOTUS rules against you. You should have won. Your client lost the bet and all the money. You feel as though you let your client down. But you relied on precedent and stare decisis.

And think if you're a law professor. How do you teach law that isn't recognized by SCOTUS?