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Hurtado v. California

Further Readings



  • Bartholomew, Paul C. Summaries of Leading Cases on the Constitution. Totowa, NJ: Littlefield, Adams & Co., 1976.
  • Bodenheimer, Edgar. "Hurtado v. California." The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States. Kermit L. Hall, editor in chief, New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
  • Cushman, Robert, with Susan P. Konick. Leading Constitutional Decisions. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1987.
  • Skeels, David. "The Massachusetts Concept of Due Process of Law and the Incorporation of the Bill of Rights into the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution." Boston Bar Journal. November-December 1991, Vol. 35, No. 6, pp. 21-24.

Additional topics

Law Library - American Law and Legal InformationNotable Trials and Court Cases - 1883 to 1917Hurtado v. California - Significance, The Right To Be Indicted, "ancient Established Law", "incapable Of Progress Or Improvement"