USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The majority opinion is an appellate opinion supporting the court’s judgment (the result reached in the case) which receives a majority vote of the justices or judges hearing the case.

Detailed explanation-2: -“Majority opinion” is a judicial opinion that is joined by more than half the judges deciding a case. “Concurring opinion, ” or concurrence, is the separate judicial opinion of an appellate judge who voted with the majority.

Detailed explanation-3: -After the votes have been tallied, the Chief Justice, or the most senior Justice in the majority if the Chief Justice is in the dissent, assigns a Justice in the majority to write the opinion of the Court.

Detailed explanation-4: -The term “opinions” as used here, refers to several types of writing by the Justices.