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.

• \there does not appear to be any serious dispute that the length of [defendant]'s traffic stop was substantially lengthened by the call for the K-9 and subsequent dog sniff\
• “there does not appear to be any serious dispute that the length of [defendant's traffic stop was substantially lengthened by the call for the K-9 and subsequent dog sniff’
• stop impermissibly lengthened when canine unit was not summoned until after stopping officer obtained all information needed to write ticket and canine did not arrive until nearly twenty minutes after stop could have ended
• canine unit summoned only after the officer obtained all information needed to write a traffic ticket and the canine unit arrived almost forty minutes into a traffic stop that could have been completed in twenty minutes
• “Although a dog sniff is not a search, an officer must have reasonable suspicion of criminal activity in order to detain an individual beyond what is necessary to complete a traffic stop related to the reason for that stop.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State of Indiana v. Molly Gray
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2013-11-13· cited 19×
• Bush v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2010-04-27· cited 17×
• Doran J. Curry v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2017-12-22· cited 15×
• Ertel v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2010-06-16· cited 7×
• Patrick Neil Tinker v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2019-07-16· cited 5×
• State of Indiana v. Megan J. Cassady
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2016-06-30· cited 4×
• Robert Dowell v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2016-02-16
• Micah Lminggio v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2018-05-25
• Stephen R. Sines v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2018-11-21
• Kewan Ramseur v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2020-05-26
• James E Ramsey v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2023-11-02
• State of Indiana v. James Wade Baker, Jr.
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2024-11-07

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Illinois v. Caballes
  Supreme Court· 2005-01-24· cited 2,007×
• State v. Quirk
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2006-02-14· cited 131×
• Crabtree v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2002-02-08· cited 51×
• Teague v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2008-08-15· cited 20×
• Faris v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2009-02-27· cited 19×
• Thayer v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2009-04-24· cited 14×
• Wilson v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-05-26· cited 13×