Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
Powell v. Board of Domestic Missions 49 Pa. 46 1865 1 Pennsylvania
Womack v. Austin 1 S.C. 421 1870 1 South Carolina
Gregory v. Winston's Adm'r 64 Va. 102 1873 1 Virginia
Miller v. Aram 37 Wis. 142 1875 1 Wisconsin
Williams v. Heirs of Pettigrew 62 Mo. 460 1876 1 Missouri
Wade v. Pulsifer 54 Vt. 45 1881 1 Vermont
Brown v. Burbank 64 Cal. 99 1883 1 California
Lett v. Emmett 37 N.J. Eq. 535 1883 1 New Jersey
Scoville v. Brock 75 Vt. 243 1903 1 Vermont
Goff v. Goff 60 W. Va. 9 1906 1 West Virginia
Justices of the Inferior Court ex rel. Selman v. Selman 6 Ga. 432 1849 1 Georgia
Harman v. Howe 68 Va. 676 1876 1 Virginia
South Branch Railway Co. v. Long 26 W. Va. 692 1885 1 West Virginia
Auditor of Public Accounts ex rel. Commonwealth v. Nicholas 16 Va. 31 1811 1 Virginia
Donally v. Ginatt's Adm'r 32 Va. 359 1834 1 Virginia
McFarland's Administrators v. Clark 39 Ky. 134 1839 1 Kentucky
Bourdon v. Mason 5 Ark. 256 1843 1 Arkansas
Nuckols's Adm'r v. Jones 49 Va. 267 1851 1 Virginia
Slack v. Wood 50 Va. 40 1852 1 Virginia
Sperry v. Gibson 3 W. Va. 522 1869 1 West Virginia