Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
Hopkins’ Heirs v. Calloway 47 Tenn. 37 1869 1 Tennessee
Stuber v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad 113 Tenn. 305 1904 1 Tennessee
Carter v. Wallace 2 Tex. 206 1847 1 Texas
Beauchamp v. I. & G. N. R’y Co. 56 Tex. 239 1882 1 Texas
Bemis v. Williams 32 Tex. Civ. App. 393 1903 1 Texas
McCrea v. Marshall 1 La. Ann. 29 1846 1 Louisiana
Becht v. Martin 37 Tex. 719 1873 1 Texas
Thornton’s Case 11 Ill. 332 1849 1 Illinois
In re Booth 3 Wis. 1 1854 1 Wisconsin
In re Perkins 2 Cal. 424 1852 1 California
Worth v. Curtis 15 Me. 228 1839 1 Maine
Ferguson v. Sutphen 8 Ill. 547 1846 1 Illinois
Degant v. Michael 2 Ind. 396 1850 1 Indiana
State v. Moore 6 Ind. 436 1855 1 Indiana
Vance v. Vance 59 Ky. 581 1859 1 Kentucky
Lynch v. Clarke 1 Sand. Ch. 583 1844 1 New York
Henry v. Lowell 16 Barb. 268 1853 1 New York
Pennsylvania Railroad v. Keiffer 22 Pa. 356 1853 1 Pennsylvania
Weaver v. Fegely & Brother 29 Pa. 27 1857 1 Pennsylvania
Martin v. Southern Ry. 51 S.C. 150 1897 1 South Carolina