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.

• holding that a guilty plea “does not rise to the level of significant mitigation where the defendant has received a substantial benefit from the plea”
• holding that a guilty plea does not rise to the level of significant mitigation where the evidence against the defendant is such that the decision to plead guilty is merely a pragmatic one
• holding that decision to plead is not entitled to substantial mitigating weight if the evidence against the defendant is such that his decision to plead guilty is a pragmatic one
• holding that there was no abuse of discretion where the trial court did not accord mitigating weight to the defendant's guilty plea where the defendant's decision to plead guilty was pragmatic
• holding the trial court is not required to give significant mitigating weight to a defendant’s guilty plea if it is pragmatic
• stating that “a guilty plea does not rise to the level of significant mitigation . . . where the evidence against him is such that the decision to plead guilty is merely a pragmatic one”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Rogers v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2007-12-13· cited 80×
• Felder v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2007-07-26· cited 62×
• Caraway v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2011-11-17· cited 54×
• Perry v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2009-04-14· cited 49×
• Creekmore v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-09-07· cited 46×
• Henderson v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-06-01· cited 44×
• Brown v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2009-06-12· cited 22×
• Hines v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-11-21· cited 21×
• Lindsey v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2007-12-03· cited 19×
• Lavoie v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2009-03-20· cited 18×
• Powell v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2008-11-06· cited 17×
• Gutermuth v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-08-24· cited 15×
• Larry Michael Caraway v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2012-10-31· cited 9×
• Fields v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-08-24· cited 8×
• Ryan Westlake v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2013-05-07· cited 5×
• Green v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-07-20· cited 4×
• Thomas-Collins v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2007-06-22· cited 3×
• Smithers v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-12-12· cited 2×
• Florence v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-12-22
• David A. Brewster v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2015-02-20

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Sensback v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-12-17· cited 112×
• Abel v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2002-08-20· cited 57×
• Griffin v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2001-10-11· cited 27×
• Simms v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2003-07-09· cited 21×
• Wilkie v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2004-08-18· cited 21×
• Boner v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2003-10-10· cited 15×
• Groves v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2003-04-29· cited 13×
• Firestone v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2002-08-28· cited 9×