Wells v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• rejecting the defendant’s claim that he was entitled to a duress defense because there was no evidence supporting “that [the defendant’s] continued absence resulted from duress, or otherwise justifying [the defendant’s] continuing absence”
• “A defendant relying on necessity to justify an escape must present some evidence justifying [their] continued absence from custody as well as [their] initial departure.”
• escape is a continuing offense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

28 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Campbell
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2008-01-18· cited 498×
• Dancer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1986-03-14· cited 35×
• State v. Francois
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1998-04-22· cited 33×
• Spakes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-01-10· cited 31×
• Gerlach v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1985-05-10· cited 27×
• Barrett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1989-04-14· cited 26×
• People v. Patnode
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2005-08-11· cited 22×
• Reeve v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1988-11-25· cited 17×
• People v. Odendahl
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1993-07-06· cited 17×
• State v. Pichon
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 1991-05-10· cited 16×
• Seibold v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1998-05-29· cited 16×
• State v. Martinez
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1989-06-01· cited 16×
• State v. Tuttle
  Utah Supreme Court· 1986-09-15· cited 14×
• Borja v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1994-12-16· cited 14×
• People v. Johnson
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2013-08-15· cited 14×
• Lacey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2002-09-06· cited 12×
• State v. Garrison
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2007-11-09· cited 12×
• McGee v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2007-07-27· cited 10×
• Gudmundson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1988-11-04· cited 9×
• Martin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1985-09-06· cited 8×

Cites

33 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• United States v. Bailey
  Supreme Court· 1980-01-21· cited 1,333×
• Toussie v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1970-03-02· cited 806×
• Commonwealth v. Stanley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-06-01· cited 192×
• People v. Lovercamp
  California Court of Appeal· 1974-12-11· cited 172×
• Juneby v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1982-03-11· cited 147×
• State v. Urquhart
  Idaho Court of Appeals· 1983-06-28· cited 135×
• Juneby v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1983-06-20· cited 116×
• People v. Unger
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1977-04-05· cited 93×
• State v. Cross
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1979-06-27· cited 82×
• Alex v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1971-04-26· cited 62×
• People v. Luther
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1975-08-20· cited 59×
• State v. Rastopsoff
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1983-03-04· cited 51×
• Esquibel v. State
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1978-03-27· cited 49×
• Surina v. Buckalew
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1981-04-06· cited 42×
• People v. McKnight
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1981-04-13· cited 42×
• State v. Reese
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1978-12-20· cited 38×
• Howarth v. Pfeifer
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1968-07-10· cited 32×
• State v. Boleyn
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1976-02-23· cited 31×
• State v. Horn
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1977-08-05· cited 28×
• State v. Baker
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1980-04-07· cited 28×