concurring opinion

American  

noun

Law.

1. (in appellate courts) an opinion filed by a judge that agrees with the majority or plurality opinion on the case but that bases this conclusion on different reasons or on a different view of the case.

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Example Sentences

“There was no search here,” Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson wrote in a concurring opinion that defended the use of this tracking data.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2026

In a concurring opinion, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said the NCAA’s other restrictions on athlete compensation also “raise serious questions under the antitrust laws”: “Price-fixing labor is price-fixing labor.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

Still, that legislative fact-finding became part of the record in the case—Alito cited it in his majority opinion, and Chief Justice John Roberts repeated it in his concurring opinion.

From Slate • Dec. 6, 2024

One of the justices on the panel, Judge Patrick Higginbotham, wrote a concurring opinion expressing frustration with the test, and asked the Supreme Court to intervene.

From BBC • Oct. 6, 2024

In addition to his opinion, we have the concurring opinion of the Chamber of Commerce of the city of New York.

From Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. by Sherman, John