Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
Marshall v. Cooper 43 Md. 46 1875 1 Maryland
Thrall v. Omaha Hotel Co. 5 Neb. 295 1877 1 Nebraska
Davis v. Toulmin 77 N.Y. 280 1879 1 New York
State ex rel. Blackman v. Strong 32 La. Ann. 173 1880 1 Louisiana
Jackson v. Bell 32 N.J. Eq. 411 1880 1 New Jersey
Goodwin v. Keney 49 Conn. 563 1882 1 Connecticut
Richmond v. Irons 121 U.S. 27 1887 1 United States
Burton v. Willin 11 Del. 522 1883 1 Delaware
Baker v. Kinsey 41 Ohio St. 403 1884 1 Ohio
Watts & Son v. Sayre 76 Ala. 397 1884 1 Alabama
Ledyard v. Phillips 58 Mich. 204 1885 1 Michigan
Merwin v. Austin 58 Conn. 22 1889 1 Connecticut
People ex rel. Samuel v. Cooper 139 Ill. 461 1891 1 Illinois
Thirty-First Street Building & Loan Ass'n v. Wetherell 43 Ill. App. 509 1892 1 Illinois
Grimes v. Shaw 2 Tex. Civ. App. 20 1893 1 Texas
Laybourn v. Seymour 53 Minn. 105 1893 1 Minnesota
Gallagher v. Germania Brewing Co. 53 Minn. 214 1893 1 Minnesota
Winborne v. White 69 N.C. 253 1873 1 North Carolina
Sipes v. McGhee 316 Mich. 614 1947 1 Michigan
Shivers v. Biloxi-Gulfport Daily Herald 236 Miss. 303 1959 1 Mississippi