Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
Fischer v. Gerndt 94 N.J. Eq. 53 1922 1 New Jersey
Halsted v. State 41 N.J.L. 552 1879 1 New Jersey
People v. Kibler 106 N.Y. 321 1887 1 New York
Galusha v. Galusha 116 N.Y. 635 1889 1 New York
Pappas v. State 135 Tenn. 499 1916 1 Tennessee
Hunter v. State 158 Tenn. 63 1928 1 Tennessee
Sowder v. Sowder 37 Tenn. 502 1858 1 Tennessee
Smith v. Johnson 49 Tenn. 225 1870 1 Tennessee
Croom v. Jerome Hill Cotton Co. 15 Tex. Civ. App. 328 1897 1 Texas
Matlock v. Glover 63 Tex. 231 1885 1 Texas
Town of Dover v. Wheeler 51 Vt. 160 1878 1 Vermont
State v. Wilner 40 Wis. 304 1876 1 Wisconsin
Pettibone v. United States 148 U.S. 197 1893 1 United States
National Bank of North America v. Norwich Savings Society 37 Conn. 444 1870 1 Connecticut
Dixon v. State 13 Fla. 636 1869 1 Florida
Catholic University of America v. Boyd 227 Ill. 281 1907 1 Illinois
Leitch v. Owings 34 Md. 262 1871 1 Maryland
First National Bank v. Weckler 52 Md. 30 1879 1 Maryland
Wailes v. Smith 76 Md. 469 1893 1 Maryland
State v. Riley 188 N.C. 72 1924 1 North Carolina