Opinions in Which Supreme Court Justices Express Disagreement with Majorities

Opinions in which Supreme Court justices express disagreement with majorities have often proven more influential over time, or at least been more elegantly and powerfully written, than majority opinions because:

A) people are more likely to side with underdogs, as much in Supreme Court cases as in life.
B) chief justices assign dissenting opinions when seeing conflicting decisions between lower courts on the horizon.
C) the dissent assignments are handed out with special care, more so than assignments for majority opinions.
D) dissenters have no need to please a majority, and may also write to persuade other justices, or appeal to a larger legal community about an issue.