Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
Jones v. Fulghum 3 Tenn. Ch. R. 193 1876 1 Tennessee
Jones v. Pyron 57 Tex. 43 1882 1 Texas
O'Hearn v. O'Hearn 114 Wis. 428 1902 1 Wisconsin
Finley v. Abner 129 F. 734 1904 1 United States
Dent v. Ashley 7 F. Cas. 496 1828 1 Arkansas
Strike v. M'Donald & Son 2 H. & G. 191 1828 1 Maryland
Miller v. Wack 1 N.J. Eq. 204 1831 1 New Jersey
Marr's Executrix v. Southwick, Cannon & Warren 2 Port. 351 1835 1 Alabama
Parish v. Gear 1 Pin. 261 1842 1 Wisconsin
Allen v. Roundtree 28 S.C.L. 80 1842 1 South Carolina
Carpenter v. Devon 6 Ala. 718 1844 1 Alabama
Commonwealth v. Deacon 6 Serg. & Rawle 526 1821 1 Pennsylvania
Hartt v. Hartt 75 Wyo. 305 1956 1 Wyoming
Sutton v. Sutton 48 Va. 234 1851 1 Virginia
Wilcox v. Bergman 96 Minn. 219 1905 1 Minnesota
Argeros v. State 29 Wyo. 278 1923 1 Wyoming
Grubbs v. Nye 21 Miss. 443 1850 1 Mississippi
Mason v. Harper's Ferry Bridge Co. 28 W. Va. 639 1886 1 West Virginia
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Stock 104 Va. 97 1905 1 Virginia
Holliday v. McKinne 22 Fla. 153 1886 1 Florida