The phrase "a divided decision" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in contexts such as legal rulings or voting outcomes where the opinions are split among the decision-makers.
Example: "The jury reached a divided decision, with five members voting for acquittal and seven for conviction."
Alternatives: "split decision" or "mixed verdict".
In a divided decision, the Supreme Court of Michigan affirmed.
In a divided decision, a three-judge panel of the federal appeals court in New Orleans agreed.
He argued that the administrative law judge lacked the authority to do his job, and the Supreme Court in a divided decision agreed.
A divided decision, Judge Learned Hand wrote in 1958, "cancels the impact of monolithic solidarity on which the authority of a bench of judges so largely depends".
It reversed a divided decision from a three-judge panel of a federal court in Charleston, W.Va., that had rejected House districts with slightly varying populations.
The petition submitted Wednesday was an appeal from a divided decision last month by a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, in Cincinnati.
The State Attorney General appealed again, this time requesting a rehearing "en banc" (before all the judges of the Fifth Circuit), and this time, in a sharply divided decision, we lost.
In the 1978 landmark case of The Regents of the University of California v. Bakke [ 34], the U.S. Supreme Court determined the UC Davis quota-based system was unconstitutional in a strongly divided decision.
Monday's sharply divided decision came from a court whose ideological differences are under intense scrutiny after last week's arguments on President Obama's health care law.
Justice Antonin Scalia said in a television interview on Wednesday night that the Supreme Court's bitterly divided decision upholding President Obama's health care law had not led to a falling out with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.
In 2012's closely divided decision, Chief Justice Roberts also wrote the controlling opinion, but that time no other justice joined it in full.
