State v. Wells

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• \Possession [of a firearm for purposes of being a felon in possession of a firearm] may be actual or constructive.\
• “Possession [of a firearm for purposes of being a felon in possession of a firearm] may be actual or constructive.”
• “Possession [of a firearm for purposes of being a felon in possession of a firearm] may be actual or constructive.”
• mere presence in a vehicle is not enough to make a defendant guilty of constructive possession of a stolen firearm that another person in the vehicle actually possessed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Houston v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1998-09-03· cited 105×
• State v. Newman
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2002-01-23· cited 13×
• State v. Delaney
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1999-05-19· cited 11×
• State v. Van Nelson
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2026-05-06