ordered liberty
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 302 U.S. 319 - Palko v. State of Connecticut · 1937Most cited · 3,864 citing opinions
immunities that are valid as against the federal government by force of the specific pledges of particular amendments have been found to be implicit in the concept of ordered liberty, and thus, through the Fourteenth Amendment, become valid as against the states
How often courts cite the cases defining “ordered liberty”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “ordered liberty” — 6,797 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1937–1949
The security of one's privacy against arbitrary intrusion by the police—which is at the core of the Fourth Amendment—is basic to a free society. It is therefore implicit in 'the concept of ordered liberty' and as such enforceable against the States through the Due Process Clause.