Case Categories: Incorporation / Application of the Bill of Rights to the States

• Barron v. Baltimore (1833)

  In Barron v. Baltimore (1833), the Court said framers of the Constitution did not intend the Bill of Rights to extend to the states, thus limiting it to the...

• Cantwell v. Connecticut (1940)

  A 1940 Supreme Court landmark decision in Cantwell v. Connecticut affirmed the religious freedom rights of a Jehovah's Witness man to go door-to-door, despite...

• De Jonge v. Oregon (1937)

  De Jonge v. Oregon (1937) said that state governments may not violate the First Amendment right of peaceable assembly. The decision contributed to symbolic...

• Everson v. Board of Education (1947)

  Everson v. Board of Education (1947) said spending tax funds to bus children to religious schools did not breach the First Amendment establishment clause...

• Fiske v. Kansas (1927)

  Fiske v. Kansas (1927) overturned a conviction under a Kansas law, saying the law violated the First Amendment. The law made it a crime to advocate crime to...

• Gitlow v. New York (1925)

  In Gitlow v. New York, the Court applied free speech and press protection to the states through the due process clause of the the Fourteenth Amendment...

• Hamilton v. Regents of the University of California (1934)

  In this case, the Supreme Court upheld the right of states to require university students to receive military training, declaring that the free exercise clause...

• Palko v. Connecticut (1937)

  Palko v. Connecticut (1937) laid the basis for the idea that some freedoms in the Bill of Rights, including the First Amendment, are more important than others...

• Slaughterhouse Cases (1873)

  The Slaughterhouse Cases (1873) suggested that the First Amendment could be incorporated to the states through the 14th Amendment. Incorporation officially...