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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
Werner v. Kelly 9 La. Ann. 60 1854 0 Marital property, partition, defamation Louisiana
Judson v. Hertz 11 La. Ann. 715 1856 0 Marital property, property, insolvency Louisiana
State v. Baltimore & Susquehanna Steam Co. 13 Md. 181 1859 0 Maryland
Porterfield v. Greenwood 10 La. Ann. 51 1855 0 Sales, seizure, title, debts Louisiana
State v. Adeline 11 La. Ann. 736 1856 0 Murder, execution, confessions Louisiana
Nixon v. Bozeman 11 La. Ann. 750 1856 0 Redhibition, recission of slave of enslaved person, death of enslaved person Louisiana
City of New Orleans v. Philippi 9 La. Ann. 44 1854 0 Taxes, property, ordinance, municipal code Louisiana
State v. Thompson 10 La. Ann. 122 1855 0 Criminal law, warrants Louisiana
State v. Judge of the Fourth District Court of New Orleans 11 La. Ann. 696 1856 0 Marital property, creditor's rights Louisiana
Ammonette v. Crandell 10 La. Ann. 174 1855 0 Judicial seizure, writ of fieri facias, property Louisiana
Middlebrook v. Nelson 34 Ga. 506 1866 0 Contract issue Supreme Court of Georgia
Matthews v. Dunbar 3 W. Va. 138 1869 0 West Virginia
Weaver v. Yeatmans 15 Ala. 539 1849 0 Right of Property Alabama
Flowers v. Glasgow 2 N.C. 141 1794 0 Action of detinue North Carolina
Larche v. Kent 10 La. Ann. 146 1855 0 Garnishments, property, marital property, successions, debts Louisiana
State v. Porte's Securities 10 La. Ann. 148 1855 0 Criminal law, selling liquor to enslaved person, bail Louisiana
Hoggatt v. Morancy 10 La. Ann. 169 1855 0 Wills, heirs, estates, property Louisiana
Succession of Eubanks 9 La. Ann. 147 1854 0 Wills, revocation of wills Louisiana
Polhill v. Neal 50 Ga. 146 1873 0 Inheritance of slaves Georgia
Overton v. Gervais 5 Mart. (n.s.) 682 1827 0 Obligations, debts, property, reconventional demand, redhibition, fraud, contracts, breach Louisiana