"I never allow my construction of a plain enactment to be biassed in the slightest degree by any number of judicial de…"

"In the books there are some loose dicta that an Act of Parliament and the common law should respectively stand as ori…"

"There are old dicta of great Judges, which have been followed by many decisions and have become maxims of the law; bu…"

"I believe that obiter dicta, like the proverbial chickens of destiny, come home to roost sooner or later in a very un…"

"This mere obiter opinion ought not to weigh against the settled direct authority of the cases which have been deliber…"

""Obiter Dicta," said John A. Finch at the recent banquet of the Indiana State Bar Association, "is not statutory Lati…"

"An old Judge is quoted as saying, 'An obiter dictum, in the language of the law, is a gratuitous opinion, an individu…"

"I am not much of a dictionary maker, but I believe I could improve upon either and say, 'An obiter dictum is the pass…"

"A great Judge was asked, 'What is the difference between law and equity?' 'Very little in the end,' responded his lor…"

"How necessary it is carefully to consider the language of learned Judges, especially when you are dealing with langua…"