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

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

In response to Kagan, Justice Amy Coney Barrett filed a concurring opinion that staked out a moderate conservative position.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

In a concurring opinion, Gorsuch stated the stakes more plainly by posing a rhetorical question: If the president’s argument was given credence, then “what do we make of the Constitution’s text?”

From Salon • Feb. 21, 2026

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

Hitherto we have been guided in our general preference for certain artists and certain pictures by the concurring opinion of the best judges of many successive generations.

From The Book of Art for Young People by Conway, Agnes Ethel