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

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