LaVALLEY v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “Discretion is abused when the judicial action taken is arbitrary, fanciful, unreasonable, or when no reasonable person would adopt the view taken by the trial court.”
• trial court did not abuse its discretion by allowing Williams rule evidence of another familial molestation occurring eleven years earlier; “[A]lthough the molestations occurred years apart, that appears more to be a function of opportunity than anything else.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• JOSE REYNA v. STATE OF FLORIDA
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2020-08-26
• Suzuki Motor Corporation v. Scott Winckler
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2026-04-10

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Apprendi v. New Jersey
  Supreme Court· 2000-06-26· cited 28,372×
• Georgia v. McCollum
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-18· cited 1,235×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1959-03-25· cited 1,148×
• Heuring v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-09-24· cited 147×
• Billie Sol Estes v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1964-09-21· cited 138×
• McLean v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-07-06· cited 125×
• San Martin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-06-11· cited 109×
• Busby v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-02-03· cited 105×
• United States v. William R. Ming, Jr.
  Seventh Circuit· 1972-10-16· cited 72×
• United States v. Robert R. Hutchings
  Eighth Circuit· 1985-01-28· cited 59×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1974-11-27· cited 45×
• United States v. Jerry Nelson
  Fifth Circuit· 1984-05-18· cited 21×
• Mesa v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-03-01· cited 19×
• Triplett v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-02-09· cited 16×
• Mendez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-07-27· cited 14×
• Fisher v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-03-24· cited 7×
• United States v. Richard MacHado
  Ninth Circuit· 1999-09-07· cited 4×
• Buchanan v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-04-28· cited 4×