obiter

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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

Quite the best-written and most incisive obiter dicta I have read since I went through the page proofs of my latest novel.

From The Guardian • Mar. 18, 2013

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

From Newsweek • Feb. 16, 2013

But it is said that this part of the Dred Scott decision is only an obiter dictum; that the question was not presented by the record.

From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by Chittenden, L. E. (Lucius Eugene)