All cases Involving slavery Cites cases involving slavery (1 degree removed) Cases including names of people involved Cases with short summaries Cases with full summaries
Alaska Alabama Arkansas American Samoa Arizona California Colorado Connecticut District of Columbia Delaware Florida Georgia Guam Hawaii Iowa Idaho Illinois Indiana Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Massachusetts Maryland Maine Michigan Minnesota Missouri Mississippi Montana North Carolina North Dakota Nebraska New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico Nevada New York Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Puerto Rico Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Virginia Virgin Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands Vermont Washington Wisconsin West Virginia Wyoming Dakota Territory United States
Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▼ Law Type Jurisdiction
Fritts v. Slade 16 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 145 1876 1 New York
Louisiana Truck & Orange Land Co. v. Page 5 So. 2d 365 1941 1 Louisiana
Orr v. Mercer County Mutual Fire Insurance 114 Pa. 387 1886 1 Pennsylvania
Town of Ontario v. Hill 99 N.Y. 324 1885 1 New York
Reilly v. Sabater 43 N.Y.S. 383 1896 1 New York
Nelson v. Petterson 229 Ill. 240 1907 1 Illinois
Locke v. Pembroke 280 N.Y. 430 1939 1 New York
Maryland Casualty Co. v. Byrne 172 Misc. 152 1939 1 New York
Scheuer v. Scheuer 308 N.Y. 447 1955 1 New York
Erbe v. Lincoln Rochester Trust Co. 13 A.D.2d 211 1961 1 New York
Brinckerhoff v. Lansing 4 Johns. Ch. 65 1819 1 New York
Doswell v. Buchanan's Ex'ors 30 Va. 365 1831 1 Virginia
Brower v. Bowers 1 Abb. Ct. App. 214 1850 1 New York
White v. Lowe 1 Redf. 376 1862 1 New York
Glass v. Glass 114 Mass. 563 1874 1 Massachusetts
Dutcher v. Dutcher 39 Wis. 651 1876 1 Wisconsin
Webster v. Webster 58 N.H. 3 1876 1 New Hampshire
Finn v. Finn 62 How. Pr. 83 1878 1 New York
Jones v. Zoller 36 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 551 1883 1 New York
Jones v. Fleming 104 N.Y. 418 1887 1 New York