A holding is a court's determination of a matter of law based on the issue presented in the particular case. It can be summed up as this: under this law, with these facts, this is the result. A holding is the same as a decision made by the judge, but the word decision can also refer to the judge's entire opinion, which contains, for example, a discussion of facts, issues and law as well as the holding. The holding is the legal principle to be drawn from the opinion, or decision, of the court, and so it is narrower than the opinion as a whole.
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Classification
Doctrine Category Connections
In Area Of Law
Entity-backed identity for the doctrine category value this doctrine already carries as an enum fact, resolved to a doctrine entity by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The enum fact itself stays on the entity unchanged.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Holding (law)
a court's determination of a matter of law based on the issue presented in the particular caseView the Source Holding (law) (Wikipedia)
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