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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
Cocke v. Trotter 18 Tenn. 213 1836 0 Tennessee
Willis v. Willis 62 Tenn. 183 1873 0 Tennessee
Vance v. Cooper 42 Tenn. 497 1865 0 Tennessee
Williams v. Terrell 26 Tenn. 551 1847 0 Tennessee
Estill v. Deckerd 63 Tenn. 497 1874 0 Tennessee
Mallet v. Smith 27 S.C. Eq. 12 1853 0 South Carolina
Lewis v. Daniel 29 Tenn. 305 1849 0 Tennessee
Jones v. Zandt 46 U.S. 215 1847 0 United States
Catterlin v. Hardy 10 Ala. 511 1846 0 Action to remove enslaved persons Alabama
Duncan v. State 26 Tenn. 148 1846 0 Tennessee
Caperton v. Huddleston 26 Tenn. 452 1846 0 Tennessee
Thomas v. Scruggs 18 Tenn. 400 1837 0 Tennessee
South-Western Railroad v. Paulk 24 Ga. 356 1858 0 Georgia
Smith v. Johnson 21 Ga. 386 1857 0 Action of trover Georgia
Riley v. Martin 35 Ga. 136 1866 0 Trover Action Supreme Court of Georgia
Goodwyn v. Goodwyn 20 Ga. 600 1856 0 Trover Action Supreme Court of Georgia
Spivey v. Platon 29 Ark. 603 1874 0 Debt for sale of enslaved persons Arkansas
Bates v. Woolfolk 5 Ga. 329 1848 0 Trover action Georgia
Hart v. Powell 18 Ga. 635 1855 0 Recovery for damages cause to a slave Supreme Court of Georgia
Moreland v. Hunley 37 Ga. 342 1867 0 Trover Action Supreme Court of Georgia