Plurality decision
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A plurality decision is a court decision in which no opinion received the support of a majority of the judges.
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A plurality opinion is the judicial opinion or opinions which received the most support among those opinions which supported the plurality decision. The plurality opinion did not receive the support of more than half the justices, but still received more support than any other opinion, excluding those justices dissenting from the holding of the court.