64 So. 2d 261 - Lightfoot v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 1981
8 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Spencer v. Hunt · Hiers v. Mitchell · Clein v. State · Crandon v. Hazlett · English v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“It is a matter of common knowledge * * * that crime is more rampant its volume greater in metropolitan than in less heavily populated areas. It is for the legislature to determine when and where governmental functions will best be served by a general law based upon population so long as other counties are potentially within the population figure. Certainly other counties than the one now affected are well within the reach of the population provisions of Chapter 25554. We cannot say that the legislature acted arbitrarily in increasing the number of grand jurors in counties having a population of over 315,000 persons. On the contrary, it seems assured the legislature intended by increasing the number of grand jurors that the grand jury would be able to function more expeditiously in the larger counties of this State wherein grand juries are required to be in session almost continuously. In counties wherein a grand jury is necessarily in session a great deal of the time it would work a hardship upon the members of the grand jury to be almost constantly away from their businesses or vocations and * * * it is entirely reasonable and appropriate to have a grand jury `venire' consisting of a greater number of grand jurors than in smaller counties. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Yoo Kun Wha v. Kelly“"Section 1. In all counties having a population of 315,000 or more according to the last State or Federal Census, the grand jury shall consist of twenty-three jurors; provided that after a grand jury of twenty-three is empanelled and convened, fifteen members of such grand jury shall constitute a quorum and may transact business, and an indictment or presentment shall be found and returned only upon the concurrence of twelve or more grand jurors. * * *"”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Yoo Kun Wha v. Kelly“"Every grand jury shall consist of not less than fifteen, nor more than eighteen persons, the assent of at least twelve of whom shall be necessary for the finding of any indictment. * * *"”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Yoo Kun Wha v. Kelly
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