obiter

Sometime during their years of instruction, most law school students encounter the Latin phrase “obiter dictum,” and many of them promptly forget it.

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

The author, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., unfurls a lot of conservative drapery to disguise his work, but the cascading screens are merely obiter dicta.

The prime minister said, “I don’t want to encourage you, but if you were to excavate some of my articles from 20 years ago, you might find comments I made, obiter dicta, about climate change that weren’t entirely supportive of the current struggle, but the facts change, and people change their minds and change their views, and that’s very important, too.”

A team led by Yajie Chen of Peking University and Hardi Peter of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research used an existing model of the Sun’s turbulent surface to calculate how the corona above it would behave in conditions like those observed by Solar Obiter in May 2020.