concurring opinion

1. 1.

   an opinion that agrees with the court's disposition of the case but is written to express a particular judge's reasoning

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Questions about concurring opinion

What does concurring opinion mean?

concurring opinion means "an opinion that agrees with the court's disposition of the case but is written to express a particular judge's reasoning".

Is concurring opinion a common word?

concurring opinion is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.