Judges, are paid public servants and are paid salaries.
Precedent cases are those whose principles are used by judges to decide current cases. Judges rely on the decisions and reasoning of prior cases to guide their judgment in similar situations.
What are federal judges appointed for?
Most federal judges retire from full time service and become senior judges. Senior judges are still federal judges and eligible to earn a full salary. They do continue to hear cases under a reduced caseload. Essentially they are still working partime. This comes from US Code 371, Part 1, Chapter 17.
Judges in India are paid very low salaries.
No officially. However . . . .
judges preside over cases
Administrative-law judges.
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Juvenile Court judges.
Judges do get vacations. In fact, some judges in the Federal system only sit for a specific number of months during the year. When they aren't actively hearing cases they are working on cases that have been accepted for appeal and they can take time off.