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In Stack v. Boyle, 342 U.S. 1 (1951), the Supreme Court declared that a bail amount is excessive under the Eighth Amendment if it were a figure higher than is reasonably calculated to ensure the defendant's appearance at trial.
Though the bail and fines clauses of the Eighth Amendment are important, the focus of the provision is the cruel and unusual punishment clause. Like many other Amendments in the Bill of Rights, it is applied to the states by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.