The present article intends to present a first approach towards the common law standards for judicial decisions revision and the possibilities of its application to Chilean procedural system, seen as a measure or threshold for deference or respect Appeal Courts should have towards the contents of a judicial decision when having to decide whether to overrule it. In this effort, the present conducts an analysis of the structure, function and content of those common law standards, mainly from American jurisprudence, expressing the relevance that recognizing their acknowledgment within contemporary procedural law could have in the design and functioning of a justice system.