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Amendment: 5th, Provision: Eminent Domain. This determined the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment required states to provide just compensation for seizing private property. -
Amendment: 1st, Provision: Freedom of Speech. This held that the 14th Amendment had extended the 1st Amendment's provisions protecting freedom of speech and freedom of the press to apply to the governments of U.S. states. -
Amendment: 1st, Provision: Freedom of the Press (Prior Restraint). This decided that prior restraint on publication was found to violate freedom of the press as protected under the First Amendment. -
Amendment: 1st, Provision: Freedom of Assembly. The Supreme Court of the United States held that the 14th Amendment's due process clause applies freedom of assembly against the states. -
Amendment: 1st, Provision: Free Exercise of Religion.This held that the 1st Amendment's federal protection of religious free exercise incorporates via the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment, which then applies to state governments too. -
Amendment: 1st, Provision: Government establishment of Religion. Decided by the Supreme Court, this case applied the Establishment Clause in the country's Bill of Rights to state law. -
Amendment: 6th, Provision: Public Trial.This was a decision by the Supreme Court involving the application of the right of due process in state court proceedings. -
Amendment: 4th, Provision: Exclusionary Rule. In this case, the Court ruled that the exclusionary rule, which prevents prosecutors from using evidence in court that was obtained illegally, cannot be used in state and federal courts. -
Amendment: 8th, Provision: Cruel and Unusual Punishment. This case was the first landmark decision of the Supreme Court in which the 8th Amendment was interpreted to prohibit criminalization of particular acts or conduct, as contrasted with prohibiting the use of a particular form of punishment for a crime. -
Amendment: 1st, Provision: Freedom to Petition. This ruled that the 1st and 14th Amendments forbid state government officials to force a crowd to disperse when they are otherwise legally marching in front of a state house. -
Amendment: 6th, Provision: Right to Counsel in felony cases. In this case, the Court ruled that the 6th Amendment requires U.S. states to provide attorneys to criminal defendants who are unable to afford their own. -
Amendment: 4th, Provision: Protection against unreasonable search and seizure (warrants). This case incorporated the 4th Amendment's protections against illegal search and seizure. -
Amendment: 5th, Provision: Protection against self-incrimination. This case deemed defendants' 5th Amendment privilege not to be compelled to be witnesses against themselves was applicable within state courts as well as federal courts. -
Amendment: 6th, Provision: Right to Confront Witnesses. This was a decision made by the Supreme Court involving the application of the right of to confront accusers in state court proceedings. -
Amendment: 5th, Provision: Right to be informed of rights upon arrest. This case was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the 5th Amendment restricts prosecutors from using a person's statements made in response to interrogation in police custody as evidence at their trial unless they can show that the person was informed of the right to consult with an attorney before and during questioning. -
Amendment: 6th, Provision: Right to a Speedy Trial. This was a decision made by the Supreme Court involving the application of the Speedy Trial Clause of the United States Constitution in state court proceedings. -
Amendment: 6th, Priovision: Right to a compulsory process to obtain witnesses for defense (subpoenas).This was a case in which the Court decided that the Compulsory Process Clause of the 6th Amendment is applicable in state courts as well as federal courts. -
Amendment: 6th, Provision: Right to Trial by jury in criminal cases. This was a Supreme Court decision which incorporated the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial and applied it to the states. -
Amendment: 5th, Provision: Protection against Double Jeopardy. This was a Supreme Court decision concerning double jeopardy. Benton ruled that the Double Jeopardy Clause of the 5th Amendment applies to the states. -
Amendment: 8th, Provision: Protection against excessive bail. In this case, Schilb was charged with two traffic offenses and secured pretrial release after depositing 10% of the bail fixed. He was convicted of one offense and acquitted of the other. After he paid his fine, all but 1% of the bail (amounting to $7.50) was refunded. He claimed that the 1% retention charge is imposed on only one segment of the class gaining pretrial release and on the poor, but not on the rich. -
Amendment: 6th, Provision: Right to be informed of the nature of accusations. This was a Supreme Court decision involving the application of obscenity laws and criminal procedure to the states. -
Amendment: 6th, Provision: Right to counsel for imprisonable misdemeanors. This case held that the accused cannot be subjected to actual imprisonment unless provided with counsel. -
Amendment: 2nd, Provision: Right to keep and bear arms. This was a case that found that the right of an individual to "keep and bear arms", as protected under the 2nd Amendment, is incorporated by the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment and is thereby enforceable against the states. -
Amendment: 8th, Provision: Protection against excessive fines. This was a case in which the Court dealt with the applicability of the excessive fines clause of the 8th Amendment to state and local governments in the context of asset forfeiture.