Chief Justice Marshall's opinion emphasized that the term "contract" referred to transactions involving individual property rights, not to "the political relations between the government and its citizens.

Justice Marshall's concurring opinion emphasized that the detention and subsequent limited search of Murphy were justified by the extremely strange circumstances presented.

Justice Kennedy's opinion rejecting that view today emphasized the broad societal purposes served by the Federal laws against discrimination.

Our opinions always have emphasized that in a disparate-impact case the employer's burden is weighty.

The dissenters felt that Rehnquist's opinion emphasized the goal of the state without any regard to the means or to the actual question at hand.

But that opinion emphasized that the roadblock was a physical restraint on the driver's "freedom of movement."

Justice Kennedy's concurring opinion emphasized that the political party nomination was not the sole method of securing a place on the ballot.

Her opinion emphasized that Maryland provides other safeguards for the defendant while a child witnesses is giving televised testimony.

Kennedy's opinion also emphasized the risks posed by allowing for the proliferation of mechanically imposed individual race classifications of its citizens.

The recent opinion simply emphasises this.