Charles Evans Hughes, the eleventh Chief Justice of the United States, offered a seminal reflection on the significance of dissenting opinions in his work, ‘The Supreme Court of the United States: Its Foundation, Methods, and Achievements – An Interpretation’.

Hughes advanced a compelling argument that dissent serves not merely as a disagreement with the majority, but as a vital mechanism for the evolution of law. He famously observed that “a dissent in a court of last resort is an appeal to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of a future day, when a later decision may possibly correct the error into which the dissenting judge believes the court to have been betrayed.”

The history of the Indian judiciary is replete with notable dissents that have played a pivotal role in

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