Way 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 prosecution need not prove victims were killed by fire, so long as deaths occurred during same criminal episode as arson
• requiring arson and killings be part of “same criminal episode” to trigger statutory aggravating circumstance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Thomas
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1990-07-03· cited 175×
• Way v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-04-20· cited 143×
• Blanco v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-09-18· cited 77×
• United States v. Curtis
  United States Court of Military Appeals· 1991-04-18· cited 51×
• Henry v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-12-24· cited 35×
• State v. Hacheney
  Washington Supreme Court· 2007-05-31· cited 34×
• Hall v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-09-06· cited 25×
• Henry v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-08-29· cited 12×
• Way v. Dugger
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-09-06· cited 11×
• State v. Malarney
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-04-07· cited 9×
• Way v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-12-23· cited 8×
• Bell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2009-02-27
• Darious Wilcox v. State of Florida & Darious Wilcox v. Secretary, Department of Corrections
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2026-05-21

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Dixon
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-07-26· cited 745×
• Tison v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1982-10-04· cited 530×
• Johnson v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1981-10-05· cited 332×
• Sireci v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-06-10· cited 158×
• Hall v. Blake
  Supreme Court· 1982-05-17· cited 150×
• Rose v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-12-09· cited 121×
• Preston v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-01-19· cited 109×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-08-25· cited 102×
• Welty v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-07-02· cited 96×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1980-12-11· cited 89×
• Adams v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-02-11· cited 84×
• King v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1980-05-08· cited 82×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-03-11· cited 21×