obiter

About 0.12 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adverb Incidentally; in passing.
2. noun An obiter dictum; a statement from the bench commenting on a point of law which is not necessary for the judgment at hand and therefore has no judicial weight, as opposed to ratio decidendi.

Similar words

dictum dicta en passant incidently occasionally as an aside incidentally offhandedly parenthetically uncircumstantially

Often followed by

dicta dictum that in scripta and by comments remarks