120 Wis. 2d 92 - State v. Haseltine’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 148 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 156 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably United States v. Charley (1999), State v. Rimmasch (1989)
6 federal appellate · 148 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 United States v. Barnard · State v. Middleton · 108 Wis. 2d 723 - State v. Alsteen · 74 Wis. 2d 647 - State v. Tarrell · 92 Wis. 2d 450 - Hampton v. State
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 156 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No witness, expert or otherwise, should be permitted to give an opinion that another mentally and physically competent witness is telling the truth.”
28 later decisions quote this exact passage“that there 'was no doubt whatsoever' that Haseltine's daughter was an incest victim.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he jury is the lie detector in the courtroom.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Krueger · State v. Echols
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.