The facts
The Decision
Impact
100

This farmer sued after being penalized under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938.

Who is Roscoe Filburn?

100

This was the year the Supreme Court decided Wickard v. Filburn

What is 1942?

100

The decision in Wickard v. Filburn gave this kind of reading to Congress’s power under the Commerce Clause.

What is a broad reading?

200

Filburn grew this crop beyond his quota, triggering the federal penalty.

What is wheat?

200

This provoked the installation of the 1938 Agriculture Adjustment Act

What is The Great Depression?

200

The Court said home-grown wheat affects the market because it replaces purchases from this kind of market.

What is the open market?

300

Filburn’s extra wheat was mainly used for this purpose rather than being sold.

What is his personal use

300

The Court said that Congress can step in on a state matter if, and only if, it has the potential to have this effect.

What is a substantial economic effect?

300
Congress penalized Filburn for overgrowing his quota of wheat because it had the potential to significantly affect this thing.

What is market price?

400

The federal wheat quotas Filburn violated were part of this New Deal–era law.

What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act?

400

Writing for the majority, this justice explained that even home-grown wheat for personal use could still be regulated if, in the aggregate, it affected the national wheat market.

Who is Justice Jackson?

400

The case showed that Congress can regulate not just the movement of goods across state lines, but also local activities if and only if they do this thing.

What is significantly affect interstate commerce?

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