In Palko v. Connecticut, the ruling in Barron v. Baltimore was overturned because of passage of the Fourteenth Amendment.

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Palko v. Connecticut did not overturn Barron v. Baltimore; rather, it incorporated certain protections of the Bill of Rights to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment, without overturning the principle established in Barron that the Bill of Rights applied only to the federal government.

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