1.   Sometimes agreement is apparent rather than real because of the tendency to conform and fall in with majority opinion.

2.   Toward the end of his career, he wrote more dissents than majority opinions.

3.   And the majority opinion makes clear that the rights at stake are those of voters, not of candidates.

4.   As the reporters got a chance to read through the majority opinion and the dissents, the banners became more definitive.

5.   Associate Justice Alan Handler wrote the majority opinion, and Associate Justice Marie Garibaldi wrote the dissent.

6.   Associate Justice Alan Handler was the lone dissenter from the majority opinion.

7.   Both Justices Anthony M. Kennedy and David H. Souter addressed that history in their majority opinions last month in the sexual harassment cases.

8.   A dissent, he noted, frequently turns out over time, as social mores change, to be more important than a majority opinion.

9.   A classic use of concurring opinions, which was displayed in the assisted suicide decision this term, is to qualify the majority opinion.

10.   A majority opinion around the game has Helling being reduced to shavings this season.