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While Supreme Court concurrences have not received the scholarly focus comparable to that given to dissenting opinions in, for example, Melvin Urofsky’s Dissent and the Supreme Court: Its Role in the Court’s History and the Nation’s Constitutional Dialogue, they merit equal attention. The significance of concurrences warrants close examination; as with dissents, they constitute, for both constitutional and statutory issues, fundamental components in the ongoing development of our juridical tradition.