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.

• concluding that trial court properly excluded 14 evidence of homicide victim’s prior violent behavior under Evidence Rule 404(b) where it was offered to show that victim’s prior behavior made him more likely to have behaved similarly when defendant stabbed him
• explaining that it is improper to use proof of crimes, wrongs, or acts to prove the character of a person in order to show action in conformity therewith
• “The maximum possible sentences are generally most appropriate for the worst offenders.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• David Williams v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2013-11-13· cited 46×
• Kenny Purvis v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2017-11-16· cited 27×
• Laster v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2009-12-22· cited 18×
• Terrence J. Fuqua v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2013-03-27· cited 17×
• Simmons v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2011-10-31· cited 15×
• Richard Vance Hastings v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2016-06-21· cited 11×
• Efren Mendoza-Vargas v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2012-09-20· cited 10×
• Bean v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2009-09-09· cited 8×
• Bethea v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2012-03-20· cited 7×
• Polson v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2015-12-31· cited 6×
• Donald Newland, Jr. v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2019-06-19· cited 2×
• Curtis A. Bethea v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2012-03-20
• Tyler Michael Cottrell v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2015-05-20
• Trenton B. Holcomb v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2015-12-09
• Nathan Polson v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2015-12-31
• Lionel R. Mackey, Jr. v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2016-03-08
• James Lee Roby v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2016-04-14
• David Oxley v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2016-04-14
• Lavonte A. Wilderness v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2016-04-26
• Amanda N. Gonzales v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2016-07-13

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Chambers v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1973-02-21· cited 5,756×
• Anglemyer v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2007-06-26· cited 1,831×
• Anglemyer v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2007-10-30· cited 1,479×
• Childress v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2006-06-14· cited 1,438×
• Buchanan v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2002-05-10· cited 165×
• Pruitt v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2005-09-13· cited 135×
• Brown v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2002-01-07· cited 120×
• Thompson v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-12-23· cited 107×
• Roach v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1998-06-19· cited 94×
• Garland v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2003-05-14· cited 89×
• United States v. Joseph Morano
  Eleventh Circuit· 1983-02-10· cited 46×
• Corralez v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2004-10-06· cited 43×
• Cloum v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2002-11-27· cited 27×
• State v. Seabrooks
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2004-02-26· cited 15×
• Lamonte v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2005-12-08· cited 12×
• Jimmerson v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2001-06-13· cited 11×