30 Wis. 2d 101 - Collier v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably 102 Wis. 2d 305 - Reiman Associates, Inc. v. R/A Advertising, Inc. (1981), 40 Wis. 2d 79 - Ramer v. State (1968)
44 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 State v. Juneau · DeGroot v. Van Akkeren · Barnard v. State · State ex rel. Reynolds v. Flynn · Kiefer 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . This court has pointed out that a tender age is no bar to a determination of testimonial competency. All that this jurisdiction requires is evidence of ‘his ability to receive accurate impressions of the facts to which his testimony relates and to relate truly the impressions received. If he has this understanding and intelligence and appreciates the obligation to speak the truth, he is competent.’ Musil v. Barron Electrical Co-operative (1961), 13 Wis. (2d) 342, 368, 108 N. W. (2d) 662 . See Model Code of Evidence, p. 91, Rule 101, for similar tests. “ ‘The question of competency rests largely in the sound discretion of the trial court, whose decision will not be disturbed in the absence of clear abuse . . . .’ 97 C. J. S., Witnesses, p. 450, sec. 58.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘The rule that objection to the competency of a witness must be properly taken at the trial or it cannot be reviewed by this court is applicable where the alleged incompetency is due to infancy.’ ””
1 later decision 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.