147 Wis. 2d 264 - State v. Romero’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably 147 Wis. 2d 240 - State v. Jensen (1988), State v. Archie (2007)
54 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 Morris v. Slappy · State v. Middleton · 124 Wis. 2d 681 - State v. Wyss · 120 Wis. 2d 92 - State v. Haseltine · 135 Wis. 2d 1 - State v. Friedrich
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 56 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.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n order to preserve an issue for appeal as a matter of right, a party must object to the error at trial, stating the proper ground for the objection.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The testimony in this case was not helpful to the jury. Rather, it tended to usurp the jury’s role. The credibility of a witness is left to the jury’s judgment. State v. Friedrich, 135 Wis. 2d 1, 16 , 398 N.W.2d 763 (1987). As the court of appeals declared in State v. Haseltine, 120 Wis. 2d 92, 96 , 352 N.W.2d 673 (Ct. App. 1984), “[n]o witness, expert or otherwise, should be permitted to give an opinion that another mentally and physically competent witness is telling the truth.””
2 later decisions 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.