The Commerce Clause

Case List

Defining Commerce

Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
United States v. E.C. Knight Co. (1895)
Champion v. Ames (1903)
Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918)
Stafford v. Wallace (1922)

The New Deal and Redefining Commerce

Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States (1935)
National Labor Relations Board v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp. (1937)
United States v. Darby Lumber Co. (1941)
Wickard v. Filburn (1942)

Commerce and the States

Cooley v. Board of Wardens (1852)
Southern Pacific Co. v. Arizona (1945)
Hunt v. WA State Apple Advertising Commission (1977)
Maine v. Taylor (1986)
Reno v. Condon (2000)
Granholm v. Heald (2005)
National Pork Producers Council v. Ross (2023)

Limits on Commerce Power in the Current Era

United States v. Lopez (1995)
United States v. Morrison (2000)
Gonzales v. Raich (2005)
National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius (2012)