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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
Peak v. Ligon 18 Tenn. 469 1837 0 Tennessee
Payne v. Lassiter 18 Tenn. 507 1837 0 Tennessee
Jacob v. Sharp 19 Tenn. 114 1838 0 Tennessee
Jones v. State 19 Tenn. 120 1838 0 Tennessee
Lane v. Dickerson 18 Tenn. 373 1837 0 Tennessee
Richmond v. Richmond 18 Tenn. 343 1837 0 Tennessee
Belcher v. Belcher 18 Tenn. 121 1836 0 Tennessee
Union Bank v. State 17 Tenn. 490 1836 0 Tennessee
Brown v. Brown 18 Tenn. 84 1836 0 Tennessee
Alexander v. Wallace 18 Tenn. 105 1836 0 Tennessee
Williams v. Williams 18 Tenn. 20 1836 0 Tennessee
McCullough v. Moore 17 Tenn. 305 1836 0 Tennessee
Clevenger v. Clevenger 48 Tenn. 104 1870 0 Tennessee
Smith v. Thomas 67 Tenn. 417 1874 0 Tennessee
City of Richmond v. Long's Adm'rs 58 Va. 375 1867 0 Action to recover value of a slave SC of Appeals VA
Galloway v. Galloway 61 Tenn. 328 1872 0 Tennessee
Alston v. Taylor 2 N.C. 439 1796 0 Action of debt North Carolina
Guthrie v. South Western Iron Co. 55 Tenn. 826 1871 0 Tennessee
Isham v. State 38 Ala. 213 1862 0 Homicide of a White Person Alabama
Hunt v. Watkins 20 Tenn. 498 1840 0 Tennessee