Timely Nutrients

All growing things have different needs at different ages.  Newborn mammals need milk.  Later in life milk can become toxic if ingested at all.  When concrete is fresh it needs moisture for thirty days to cure properly after that moisture is unnecessary.  A tree needs new branches and leaves then after eighty years any further weight causes the tree to tip over in a strong wind.  During the generation following the Revolutionary War the United States needed the jurisprudence of the Marshall Supreme Court in order to grow effectively, in order for commerce to thrive.  Decisions that may have served a great purpose for one hundred fifty years may begin to have an opposite effect thereafter.  How much of our foundational legal precedent is now doing more harm than good?