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In 1886 the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case of Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway Company v. Illinois declared that states could not regulate commerce that went beyond their boundaries.
Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Company v. Illinois, 118 U.S. 557 (1886), also known as the Wabash Case, was a Supreme Court decision that severely limited the rights of states to control or impede interstate commerce. It led to the creation of the Interstate Commerce Commission.
A statute of Illinois enacts that if any railroad company shall, within that state, charge or receive for transporting passengers or freight of the same class, the same or a greater sum for any distance than it does for a longer distance, it shall be liable to a penalty for unjust discrimination.
WABASH, ST. LOUIS & PACIFIC RAILWAY v. ILLINOIS 118 U.S. 557 (1886) Tremendous growth in a national railroad network after the civil war led to increasingly scandalous and harmful abuses. State efforts to control the problems were generally ineffective until Munn v. Illinois (1877).
By the Fifth Amendment, it was introduced into the Constitution of the United States as a limitation upon the powers of the national government, and by the Fourteenth, as a guaranty against any encroachment upon an acknowledged right of citizenship by the legislatures of the States.
21 maj 2018 · MUNN V. ILLINOIS, 94 U.S. 113 (1876), upheld state regulation of grain elevator prices. Chief Justice Morrison Waite's majority opinion rejected a commerce clause claim on the grounds that the grain elevators were wholly intrastate and Congress has taken no action to regulate any interstate commerce effects.
Munn v. Illinois, (1877), case in which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the power of government to regulate private industries. The case developed as a result of the Illinois legislature’s responding in 1871 to pressure from the National Grange, an association of farmers, by setting maximum rates.
