Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▼ Law Type Jurisdiction
Cocke v. Foote 49 Miss. 181 1873 1 Mississippi
Letchford v. Cary 52 Miss. 791 1876 1 Mississippi
Roberts v. Ross 2 Miss. Dec. 274 1881 1 Mississippi
Prentiss v. Bowden 145 N.Y. 342 1895 1 New York
Williams v. Bennett 75 Ark. 312 1905 1 Arkansas
Dye v. Mayor 119 Miss. 359 1919 1 Mississippi
Pyle v. Gentry 127 Miss. 784 1921 1 Mississippi
Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad v. City of Clarksdale 257 U.S. 10 1921 1 United States
Board of Sup'rs v. Ash 142 Miss. 686 1926 1 Mississippi
Peck v. Metcalf 8 R.I. 386 1866 1 Rhode Island
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. Trimble 51 Md. 99 1879 1 Maryland
Updike v. Adams 24 R.I. 220 1902 1 Rhode Island
Hoerr v. Hoerr 140 Minn. 223 1917 1 Minnesota
Simms v. Hervey 19 Iowa 273 1865 1 Iowa
Bibb v. Pope 43 Ala. 190 1869 1 Alabama
Merrill v. Nelson 18 Minn. 366 1872 1 Minnesota
Kavanaugh v. Day 10 R.I. 393 1873 1 Rhode Island
Heaton v. Fryberger 38 Iowa 185 1874 1 Iowa
T. H. & J. M. Allen & Co. v. Lenoir 53 Miss. 321 1876 1 Mississippi
Johnston ex rel. Smith v. Wallace 53 Miss. 331 1876 1 Mississippi