You can cite the Euro courts if you'd like but they, like Jones steroid laced holding, are not authoritarian. Your "cite" wouldn't even bind other judges sitting on the same court and thats the point the guy was making.
Learn to read. He didn't say they weren't binding. He said they had no relevance.
It sure looked like he was saying the case had no future relevance whatsoever. I guess I should have been reading in the penumbras for his real meaning.
And as an aside, those supposedly useless, not-worth-the-paper-they're-written-on district court opinions have a funny and frequent way of showing up in circuit court decisions, and they seem to have a more than slightly noticeable effect on district courts as well.
I'm not sure I would take the position in front of an appellate panel that garbage from a district court is so useless it isn't even worth distinguishing. You're likely to acquire a serious case of verbal whiplash.