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Case Name Citation ▲ Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Commonwealth v. Booth 4 Va. 394 1824 0 Assault and battery of a slave General Ct of VA
Selden v. Coalter 4 Va. 533 1818 0 Wills & Estate General Ct of VA
Jennings v. Paine 4 Wis. 358 1856 0 Wisconsin
Graham v. Graham 4 W. Va. 320 1870 0 West Virginia
Jones v. Conoway 4 Yeates 108 1804 0 Fraud SC of PA.
Respublica v. Smith 4 Yeates 204 1805 0 Recovery for slave SC of PA.
Stiles v. Richardson 4 Yeates 82 1804 0 Recovery for freedom SC of PA.
Millsap v. Stanley 50 Ala. 319 1874 0 Will & trust Alabama
Blizzard v. Nosworthy 50 Ga. 514 1874 0 Deed for slave Supreme Court of Georgia
Watson v. Blackwood 50 Miss. 15 1874 0 Whether an enslaved man given as a gift should be factored in to sale of estate Mississippi
Irion v. Hume 50 Miss. 419 1874 0 Attachment of slaves Mississippi
Young v. McDaniel 50 N.C. 103 1857 0 Action for harboring a slave North Carolina
Hooper v. Moore 50 N.C. 130 1857 0 Action of detinue North Carolina
Airey v. Holmes 50 N.C. 142 1857 0 Action of detinue North Carolina
Baines v. Drake 50 N.C. 153 1857 0 Action of assumpsit North Carolina
State v. John 50 N.C. 163 1857 0 Robbery North Carolina
Osborne v. High Shoals Mining & Manufacturing Co. 50 N.C. 177 1857 0 Action of assumpsit North Carolina
McEachin v. McRae 50 N.C. 19 1857 0 Action of trover North Carolina
Cain v. Hawkins 50 N.C. 192 1857 0 Action of debt North Carolina
State v. George 50 N.C. 233 1858 0 Murder North Carolina