The Supreme Court ruling in Wickard v. Filburn overturned more than a century of precedents by dramatically increasing the power of Congress to regulate the economy. The case was argued on May 4, 1942, and reargued on October 13, with a ruling issued on November 9. In 1938, the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) established quotas on certain crops, ranging from peanuts to cotton to wheat, as part of an effort to keep prices stable. The appellee, Roscoe C. Filburn, was a small farmer in Ohio who was charged with overproduction of wheat in 1941. Filburn admitted to growing more wheat than he was allowed under the government’s allotment system, but he argued that the additional crops were used to feed the animals on his farm. The farmer did not sell the extra wheat; therefore, he contended, it was exempt from the AAA.