Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
State v. M’Lemore 20 S.C.L. 680 1835 1 South Carolina
Terry v. Belcher 17 S.C.L. 568 1830 1 South Carolina
Maples ex rel. Broughton v. Maples 14 S.C. Eq. 300 1839 1 South Carolina
Mansfield's Estate 206 Pa. 64 1903 1 Pennsylvania
Phoenix Building & Homestead Ass'n v. Weilbacher 11 Teiss. 72 1914 1 Louisiana
Jones v. Swanson 40 Tenn. 161 1859 1 Tennessee
Smith v. Turner 48 U.S. 283 1849 1 United States
Nolde's Estate 27 Pa. Super. 413 1904 1 Pennsylvania
Kauffeld's Estate 28 Pa. Super. 162 1905 1 Pennsylvania
Black v. State 113 Wis. 205 1902 1 Wisconsin
Humphreys v. State 70 Ohio St. 67 1904 1 Ohio
Overton v. Hudson Executor of Hudson 2 Va. 172 1796 1 Virginia
Thurber v. Royal Insurance 15 Del. 251 1894 1 Delaware
Rhines v. Phelps 8 Ill. 455 1846 1 Illinois
Harper v. Harper 73 Ky. 447 1874 1 Kentucky
State v. President of the Commercial & Rail Road Bank of Vicksburg 20 Miss. 276 1849 1 Mississippi
Mendenhall v. Parish 53 N.C. 105 1860 1 North Carolina
State v. Raiford 13 N.C. 214 1829 1 North Carolina
Chapman v. Erie Railway Co. 55 N.Y. 579 1874 1 New York
Rebecca J. E. Townsend’s Executors v. Townsend 25 Ohio St. 477 1874 1 Ohio