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

What 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 of 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 Filburn’s extra wheat, added together with other farmers’ extra wheat, had this kind of big impact on interstate commerce.

What is a substantial economic effect?

300

The Court explained that wheat grown and used on the farm still “competes” with wheat in commerce because it can influence this about the market.

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?