Console v. Nickou’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Santopietro v. City of New Haven (1996), Solomon v. Aberman (1985)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 87 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Pierce v. Albanese · Ardoline v. Keegan · Arkansas Public Service Commission v. United States of America and Interstate Commerce Commission · Hennessey v. Hennessey · United States v. Vorreiter
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The test of the sufficiency of proof by circumstantial evidence is whether rational minds could reasonably and logically draw the inference. Andrea v. New York, N.H. & H.R. Co., 144 Conn. 340, 344 , 131 A.2d 642 ; Pierce v. Albanese, 144 Conn. 241, 256 , 129 A.2d 606 , appeal dismissed, 355 U.S. 15 , 78 S.Ct. 36 , 2 L.Ed.2d 21 . The proof need not be so conclusive that it precludes every other hypothesis. It is sufficient if the proof produces in the mind of the trier a reasonable belief that it is more probable than otherwise that the fact to be inferred is true...."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.