Munn v. Illinois

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Munn v. Illinois
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 14–18, 1876 Decided October 1, 1876
Full case name	Munn v. State of Illinois
Citations	94 U.S. 113 (more) 4 Otto 113; 24 L. Ed. 77; 1876 U.S. LEXIS 1842
Holding
The Fourteenth Amendment does not prevent the State of Illinois from regulating charges for use of a business's grain elevators.
Court membership
Chief Justice Morrison Waite Associate Justices Nathan Clifford · Noah H. Swayne Samuel F. Miller · David Davis Stephen J. Field · William Strong Joseph P. Bradley · Ward Hunt
Case opinions
Majority	Waite, joined by Clifford, Swayne, Miller, Davis, Bradley, Hunt
Dissent	Field, joined by Strong
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. XIV
Overruled by
Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Company v. Illinois (1886)

Munn v. Illinois, 94 U.S. 113 (1876), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court upheld the power of state governments to regulate private industries that affect "the common good."^[1]