Noun
evidence providing only a basis for inference about the fact in dispute
Source: WordNetSome circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. Henry David Thoreau
Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different. Arthur Conan Doyle
Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example. Arthur Conan Doyle
Circumstantial evidence is evidence. Bernard Goldberg
Circumstantial evidence only raises a probability. Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet
Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection must rest on circumstantial evidence. George Santayana