Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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Marks rule

The doctrine that, when the U.S. Supreme Court issues a fractured, plurality opinion, the opinion of the Justices concurring in the judgment on the narrowest grounds -that is, the legal standard with which a majority of the Court would agree - is considered the Court's holding. Marks v. United States, 430 U.S. 188, 97 S.Ct. 990 (1977).