Difference between Obiter Dictum and Dictum

OBITER DICTUM vs DICTUM: NOUN

A statement or remark in a court's judgment that is not essential to the disposition of the case.
An incidental and collateral opinion uttered by a judge. See dictum, n., 2 (a).
An incidental remark
An opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on the case in question and therefore not binding

An arbitrament or award.
The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it.
A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it.
An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; an apothegm.
Synonyms Aphorism, Axiom, Maxim, etc. See aphorism.
In logic, that part of a modal proposition which consists of the proposition to which the modality is applied.
In law, an opinion of a judge which does not embody the resolution or determination of the court, and is made without argument, or full consideration of the point, and is not the professed deliberate determination of the judge himself.
A positive or judicial assertion; an authoritative saying.
A side remark made in a judicial opinion that is not necessary for the decision in the case and therefore is not to be regarded as establishing the law of the case or setting legal precedent.
An authoritative, often formal pronouncement.
An opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on the case in question and therefore not binding
An authoritative declaration

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The author has also failed to provide clarity in distinguishing the obiter dictum, ratio decidendi, and the dissenting opinion in the different cases mentioned.
It also introduces students to the use materials, how to brief a case, judicial precedents and obiter dictum in Nigerian case law legislation.
This clearly shows that the obiter dictum cannot be considered as an overruling of the previous case law.
Franche Bich establishes, and rightly so, a distinction between this simple presumption and an obiter dictum.
It was, in fact, part of an obiter dictum unrelated to the case in hand.
To be sure, this obiter dictum clearly is not a considered judgment.
NBA and applied by the District Court as obiter dictum.

Hayes dictum do not violate the Fourth Amendment.
Other courts relied on a dictum in Crawford.
Dictum in its published cases suggests the same.
If it is dictum, it is the sort of considered dictum to which lower courts such as this one must pay particular heed.
Mauris semper, velit semper laoreet dictum, quam diam dictum urna, nec placerat elit nisl in quam.
Morbi dictum, ex in dictum lacinia, lacus leo consectetur ex, a placerat lacus mi eu velit.
Veredictum, quasi dictum veritatis; ut judicium, quasi juris dictum.
Quisque augue est, congue sed enim ut, dictum dictum urna.
Aliquam dictum elit vitae mauris facilisis, at dictum urna dignissim.
Nullum est jam dictum, quod non dictum sit gus.