Bunn v. Bunn

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that gratuitous judicial observations having no bearing on the outcome of a dispute are “obiter dictum”
• stating that “a purely gratuitous observation or remark made in pronouncing an opinion and which concerns some rule, principle or application of law not necessarily involved in the case or essential to its determination is obiter dictum, pure and simple”
• “Having made the threshold determination that it lacked certiorari jurisdiction to review the merits of the case, the views subsequently expressed on the substantive issue of law involved . . . were necessarily obiter dicta.”
• “[A] purely gratuitous observation or remark made in pronouncing an opinion and which concerns some rule, principle or application of law not necessarily involved in the case or essential to its determination is obiter dictum ... [and] has no precedential value.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).