evidence table

No geometry at all. Claims down the side, sources across the top, and in every cell what that source actually gives for that claim. Reading across a row shows how thin or thick the support for one claim is. Reading down a column shows how much weight a single source is carrying across the whole case. A row with one filled cell and a column doing all the work are both visible at a glance, and neither is visible in a bibliography.

No geometry at all. Claims down the side, sources across the top, and in every cell what that source actually gives for that claim. Reading across a row shows how thin or thick the support for one claim is. Reading down a column shows how much weight a single source is carrying across the whole case. A row with one filled cell and a column doing all the work are both visible at a glance, and neither is visible in a bibliography.

Example

Best when you have many sources and many claims and cannot tell what is carried by what.