Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type ▲ Jurisdiction
Robinson v. Sherman 43 Va. 178 1845 1 Virginia
Dejarnatte v. Allen & wife 46 Va. 499 1849 1 Virginia
Houston v. Br. Bank at Huntsville 25 Ala. 250 1854 1 Alabama
Mitchell v. De Witt 25 Supp. Tex. 180 1860 1 Texas
Conaway v. Odbert 2 W. Va. 25 1867 1 West Virginia
Berthold v. Berthold 46 Mo. 557 1870 1 Missouri
Kendrick v. Forney 63 Va. 748 1872 1 Virginia
Wernecke v. Kenyon's Administrator 66 Mo. 275 1877 1 Missouri
Cromer v. Cromer's Adm'rs 70 Va. 280 1877 1 Virginia
Knighton v. Curry 62 Ala. 404 1878 1 Alabama
McNamara v. McNamara 62 Ga. 200 1879 1 Georgia
Brewer v. Curtis 30 Del. 204 1919 1 Delaware
Mathews v. Cody 60 Ga. 355 1878 1 Georgia
James v. Bettis 21 Ga. App. 170 1917 1 Georgia
Few v. Pou 32 Ga. App. 620 1924 1 Georgia
Parker v. Thompson 219 Ga. 293 1963 1 Georgia
Corbey v. Rogers 152 Ind. 169 1899 1 Indiana
Donaldson v. Allen 182 Mo. 626 1904 1 Missouri
Ganong v. Brown 88 Miss. 53 1906 1 Mississippi
Baldwin v. Boyd 18 Neb. 444 1885 1 Nebraska