King v. Payne

Our practice, with rare exceptions, is for individual justices to take cases in rotation following oral argument and write opinions embodying their personal views of the proper decision to be rendered and reasons therefor prior to actual decision by the court. Upon submission of these tentative opinions to conference, they are approved either absolutely or with changes or rejected or held up for decision until submission by some *115other justice of a dissent or a proposed substitute opinion. If, as often happens, the views of the latter prevail, they become the opinion of the court. The result…