1.   Instead of hearing eight separate opinions, they melded their ideas into two reports that revealed considerable overlap.

2.   Although the lower-court proceeding produced thousands of pages of new documents, the special three-judge federal court panel came up with three separate opinions.

3.   Any justice, however, may decide to write a separate opinion.

4.   A separate concurring opinion by Justice Clarence Thomas suggested that the difference might indeed be significant.

5.   A seventh member of the court, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, agreed in a separate opinion that the all-male admissions policy violated the Constitution.

6.   Breyer took a singular position in his separate opinion.

7.   But as Breyer pointed out in a separate opinion on Monday, the undercount would make little difference if it were spread evenly across the population.

8.   But as Justice Stephen Breyer underscored in a separate concurring opinion, there are strong free-speech values on the other side, too.

9.   But Justice Stephen G. Breyer, who provided a fifth vote for the majority in crucial parts of the opinion, departed from this analysis in a separate opinion.

10.   Chief Justice Rehnquist filed a separate opinion concurring in the result, with Justice Antonin Scalia contributing a lone dissent.