Two justices in the same majority, given the opportunity, might write very different majority opinions ( as evidenced by many concurring opinions ); being assigned the opinion may also cement the vote of an Associate who is viewed as only marginally in the majority ( a tactic that was reportedly used to some effect by Earl Warren ).

The Law Lords were the ones who give opinions on the case, the other Lords normally concurring therein.

Normally, the Law Lords were the members who opined on the law, the other members merely concurring with their opinions.

These lists contain detailed tables about each term, including which Justices filed the Court's opinion, dissenting and concurring opinions in each case, and information about Justices joining opinions.

Dissenting and concurring opinions are fewer than during the Dickson and Lamer Courts.

The three concurring opinions were written by Justices Clark, Douglas and Harlan.

Announced on December 14, 1964, the opinion of the court was delivered by Justice Tom C. Clark, with concurring opinions by Justice Arthur Goldberg, Justice Hugo Black, and Justice William O. Douglas.

Separate concurring opinions were delivered by Justices Felix Frankfurter and Robert H. Jackson.

Jackson's concurring opinion in 1952's Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer ( forbidding President Harry Truman's seizure of steel mills during the Korean War to avert a strike ), where Jackson formulated a three-tier test for evaluating claims of presidential power, remains one of the most widely cited opinions in Supreme Court history ( it was quoted repeatedly by Supreme Court nominees John Roberts and Samuel Alito during their confirmation hearings ).

However, in all cases, concurring opinions had advocated an " objective " test, focusing instead on whether the conduct of the police or other investigators would catch only those " ready and willing to commit crime.

In two opinions, ( Majority opinion written by Cory J. per La Forest, Gonthier, Cory, McLachlin, Iacobucci and Major JJ., concurring in result: L ' Heureux-Dubé J.

The Court split 6 to 2 in ruling that Baker's case was justiciable, producing, in addition to the opinion of the Court by Justice William J. Brennan, three concurring opinions and two dissenting opinions.

He wrote 247 opinions for the Court, 132 concurring opinions, and 251 dissents.

Justice Douglas and Black both wrote concurring opinions in which they argued that the lower court's decision should have been overturned based on the Fifth Amendment liberty from self incrimination.

Brewer was an active member of the Supreme Court, writing often in both concurring and dissenting opinions.

In concurring opinions, Justices Douglas joined by Justices Black and Murphy, and Justice Jackson held that the law violated the Privileges or Immunities clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

It is worth noting that in writing their concurring opinions, the additional justices chose to forgo the explanation that California had violated Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, arguing that defining the transportation of human beings as “ commerce ” raises a number of troubling moral questions which undermine individual rights and devalue the original intent of the Commerce Clause.

His opinions, both concurring and dissenting, were generally very long and weighted with legal history.

The concurring opinions of Justice Goldberg and Justice Douglas simply stated that they would reverse based upon their opinions in Bell v. Maryland, 378 U. S. 226 ( 1964 ), another case involving a sit-in demonstration by African American students that was announced the same day as the Bouie decision.

Chief Justice Burger, Justice Rehnquist, Justice Stewart, and Justice Stevens, while concurring in result, would have not relied on the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, but instead, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.

Burger was opposed to gay rights as he wrote a famous concurring opinion in the Court's 1986 decision upholding a Georgia law criminalizing sodomy ( Bowers v. Hardwick ), in which Burger purported to marshal historical evidence that laws criminalizing homosexuality were of ancient vintage.

" A concurring opinion by Chief Justice Warren E. Burger cited the " ancient roots " of prohibitions against homosexual sex, quoting William Blackstone's description of homosexual sex as an " infamous crime against nature ", worse than rape, and " a crime not fit to be named.

Chief Justice Burger delivered a concurring opinion in the case.

The short concurring opinion by Chief Justice Warren E. Burger emphasized historical negative attitudes toward homosexual sex, quoting Sir William Blackstone's characterization of sodomy as " a crime not fit to be named.

" Words uttered under coercion are proof of loyalty to nothing but self-interest ," wrote Black and Douglas in a concurring opinion.

Later, Justice Douglas, concurring in Eisenstadt, Sheriff v. Baird cited the pamphlet to support striking down restrictions on lecturing about birth control.

Laws that " shock the conscience " of the Court were generally deemed unconstitutional in Rochin v. California, though concurring Justices Black and Douglas argued that pumping a defendant's stomach for evidence should have been deemed unconstitutional on the narrower ground that it violates the Fifth Amendment's ban on self-incrimination.

The unanimous opinion was written by William O. Douglas, with Frank Murphy and Owen Roberts concurring.

Justice Douglas, concurring, argued that since Baird was engaged in speech while distributing vaginal foam, his arrest was prohibited by the First Amendment.

Mr. Justice Douglas wrote in dissent, with Mr. Justice Marshall concurring:

In Justice Sandra Day O ' Connor's opinion concurring in the judgment, however, she argued that by prohibiting only homosexual sodomy, and not heterosexual sodomy as well, Texas's statute did not meet rational-basis review under the Equal Protection Clause ; her opinion prominently cited City of Cleburne.

The idea of territorial incorporation is generally agreed to have arisen from Justice White's concurring decision noted above.

He rejected the Griswold analysis, but found that the law had no currently rational basis, much like Justice White's concurring opinion in Griswold.

Justice Thomas, joined by Justice Scalia, issued a strongly worded opinion, concurring in part and dissenting in part, arguing that if Michigan could not remain a prestigious institution and admit students under a race-neutral system, the " Law School should be forced to choose between its classroom aesthetic and its exclusionary admissions system.

On June 30, with six Justices concurring and three dissenting, the Supreme Court upheld the right of the two newspapers to publish the material.

The Court of the King's Bench, led by Lord Mansfield ( with Aston and Willes JJ concurring in judgment, Sir Joseph Yates dissenting ), sided with the publishers, finding that common law rights were not extinguished by the Statute of Anne.

He chose not to write a dissenting or concurring opinion, in either hearing.

* The European Court of Human Rights uses the term concurring opinion and calls both concurring and dissenting opinions separate opinions.

" As recently as 2001, in the Supreme Court case of Kyllo v. United States, 533 U. S. 27 ( 2001 ), the article was cited by a majority of justices, both those concurring and those dissenting.

There were 5 concurring and dissenting opinions, signed by eight Committee members.

Justice Thurgood Marshall, dissenting in part and concurring in the result of invalidating the statute, argued that due to the history of discrimination against the mentally retarded, the Court should employ a higher standard of scrutiny ( see Equal Protection scrutiny ) when examining laws that regulated those with mental disabilities.

In contrast to regular opinions, a per curiam does not list the individual judge responsible for authoring the decision, but minority dissenting and concurring decisions are signed.

Sometimes an opinion in the name of the Court may be accompanied by extensive concurring and dissenting opinions.

* Number of concurring and dissenting judges

Justice Brennan wrote an opinion concurring in the method, but dissenting in the outcome.

This finding was made with two of the justices ( William J. Brennan and Thurgood Marshall ) entering an opinion " concurring in part and dissenting in part ," because they accepted the argument of the State of Alabama on the matter in question, but held that capital punishment itself was " cruel and unusual punishment ", prohibited by the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States.

Justice John Marshall Harlan wrote a separate opinion concurring in the result, but dissenting in the Court's adoption of the rule of reason.

On March 30, 2006, the Supreme Judicial Court upheld the application of the law as it applies to marriages of same sex couples in a complex decision, Cote-Whitacre v. Department of Public Health, with three concurring decisions filed and one dissenting vote.

Sir Hersch's writings and ( concurring and dissenting ) opinions continue, nearly 50 years after his death, to be cited frequently in briefs, judgments, and advisory opinions of the World Court.

In decisions that require holdings with multiple parts due to multiple legal claims or consolidated cases, judges may write an opinion " concurring in part and dissenting in part ".