Diagram
of How the Case Moved Through the Court System
Supreme
Court of the United States
Reversed
the decisiof the New York courts because
the Constitution gives only Congress,
not the states, the power to regulate
interstate commerce.
Gibbons
v. Ogden (March 2, 1824)
Court
of Errors, New York
Upheld
the decision of Court of Chancery ordering
Gibbons to stop operating his boats.
Gibbons
v. Ogden (1820)
Court
of Chancery, New York
Aaron
Ogden files a complaint against Thomas
Gibbons asking the Court to stop Gibbons
from operating his boats from New Jersey
to New York and the court issues the order
for Ogden.
