scintilla rule
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 320 U.S. 476 - Brady v. Southern Railway Co. · 1943Most cited · 1,641 citing opinions
The weight of the evidence under the Employers' Liability Act must be more than a scintilla before the case may be properly left to the discretion of the trier of fact
How often courts cite the case defining “scintilla rule”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “scintilla rule” — 1,637 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.