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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type ▲ Jurisdiction
Federal Sign System v. Leopold 10 La. App. 709 1929 1 Louisiana
William D. Seymour Co. v. Castell 13 La. App. 365 1930 1 Louisiana
General Motors Acceptance Corp. v. Smith 399 So. 2d 1285 1981 1 Louisiana
Lauderdale v. Guin 174 So. 198 1937 1 Louisiana
Cannella v. Succession of Cannella 46 So. 2d 377 1950 1 Louisiana
Succession of Kotz 577 So. 2d 1199 1991 1 Louisiana
Lawson v. McBride 121 La. 282 1908 1 Louisiana
Brownell v. Steere 29 Ill. App. 358 1888 1 Illinois
Brownell v. Steere 128 Ill. 209 1889 1 Illinois
In re Mitchell-Borne Const. Co. 134 La. 518 1914 1 Louisiana
In re Guccione 256 So. 2d 843 1972 1 Louisiana
Gammage v. Weinberg 355 S.W.2d 788 1962 1 Texas
Paxton v. State 59 Neb. 460 1899 1 Nebraska
Miller v. State 63 Okla. Crim. 64 1937 1 Oklahoma
Milliken v. Barrow 55 F. 148 1893 1 United States
Zeigler v. His Creditors 116 La. 250 1906 1 Louisiana
Succession of McCall 140 La. 88 1916 1 Louisiana
Smyth v. New Orleans Canal & Banking Co. 93 F. 899 1899 1 United States
Miller v. Vivian Oil Co. 131 La. 761 1912 1 Louisiana
Patton's Heirs v. Moseley 186 La. 1088 1937 1 Louisiana