Adamson v. California

Adamson v. California
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 15–16, 1947 Decided June 23, 1947
Full case name	Adamson v. People of the State of California
Citations	332 U.S. 46 (more) 67 S. Ct. 1672; 91 L. Ed. 1903; 1947 U.S. LEXIS 2876; 171 A.L.R. 1223
Case history
Prior	On appeal from the Supreme Court of California. 27 Cal.2d 478, 165 P.2d 3
Subsequent	As amended. Rehearing denied, 332 U.S. 784, 68 S. Ct. 27, 92 L. Ed. 367, 1947 U.S. LEXIS 1986 (1947)
Holding
The Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause did not extend to a defendant's Fifth Amendment right not to bear witness against themselves in state courts.
Court membership
Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson Associate Justices Hugo Black · Stanley F. Reed Felix Frankfurter · William O. Douglas Frank Murphy · Robert H. Jackson Wiley B. Rutledge · Harold H. Burton
Case opinions
Majority	Reed, joined by Vinson, Frankfurter, Jackson, Burton
Concurrence	Frankfurter
Dissent	Black, joined by Douglas
Dissent	Murphy, joined by Rutledge
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amends. V, XIV
Overruled by
Malloy v. Hogan (1964)

Adamson v. California, 332 U.S. 46 (1947), was a United States Supreme Court case regarding the incorporation of the Fifth Amendment of the Bill of Rights. Its decision is part of a long line of cases that eventually led to the Selective Incorporation Doctrine.