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

And any opinion given on any other point is obiter dictum, and of no authority.

From Report of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Opinions of the Judges Thereof, in the Case of Dred Scott versus John F.A. Sandford December Term, 1856. by Howard, Benjamin C.