obiter dictum

Examples of obiter dictum in the following topics:

• Federalism and the Civil War: The Dred Scott Decision and Nullification

  • The decision is often criticized as being obiter dictum because it went on to conclude that Congress had no authority to prohibit slavery in federal territories, and slaves could not be taken away from their owners without due process.

• Correlation is Not Causation

  • The conventional dictum "correlation does not imply causation" means that correlation cannot be used to infer a causal relationship between variables.
  • The conventional dictum that "correlation does not imply causation" means that correlation cannot be used to infer a causal relationship between the variables.
  • This dictum does not imply that correlations cannot indicate the potential existence of causal relations.

• Continuity

  • In fact, a dictum of classical physics states that in nature everything is continuous.

• Behavior of an Efficient Market

  • Research based on regression and scatter diagrams has strongly supported Samuelson's dictum.

• Changes in Technology

  • The notion that "Form follows function," a dictum originally expressed by Frank Lloyd Wright's early mentor Louis Sullivan, meaning that the result of design should derive directly from its purpose

• Rationalism

  • For instance, his famous dictum, cogito ergo sum or "I think, therefore I am," is a conclusion reached a priori i.e., prior to any kind of experience on the matter.