obiter

Example Sentences

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Alito is hardly the first justice to mislead through obiter dicta.

From Washington Post • May 6, 2022

Hersey and Wolfe were given to issuing restrictive obiter dicta about nonfiction writing.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019

Never has so much incident, outrage and media-fanned obiter dicta successfully intruded from the fringes.

From The Guardian • Jul. 14, 2014

"It is an obiter dictum," somebody said to me, apparently thinking that Latin would persuade me.

From Newsweek • Feb. 16, 2013

The case being thus thrown out of court, all further discussion of its merits was superfluous—a mere obiter dictum, without legal force.

From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by Merriam, George Spring