Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type ▼ Jurisdiction
Douglass v. Douglass 13 App. D.C. 21 1898 1 District of Columbia
Thayer v. Paulding 200 Mass. 98 1908 1 Massachusetts
Martin v. Thompson 267 Mo. 104 1916 1 Missouri
State ex rel. Brunhild v. Potter 107 N.C. 415 1890 1 North Carolina
Holler v. P. Sanford Ross, Inc. 68 N.J.L. 324 1902 1 New Jersey
Stewart v. Cary Lumber Co. 146 N.C. 47 1907 1 North Carolina
Terry v. Burford 131 Tenn. 451 1914 1 Tennessee
Goodyear v. Bloodgood 1 Barb. Ch. 617 1846 1 New York
Ponton v. McAdoo 71 N.C. 101 1874 1 North Carolina
Bell Bakeries, Inc. v. Jefferson Standard Life Insurance 245 N.C. 408 1957 1 North Carolina
Quinn v. Patton 37 N.C. 48 1841 1 North Carolina
Parker v. Barker 42 N.H. 78 1860 1 New Hampshire
McDonald v. Allen 37 Wis. 108 1875 1 Wisconsin
Conley v. Alabama Gold Life Insurance 67 Ala. 472 1880 1 Alabama
Goodrich v. Williamson 10 Okla. 588 1899 1 Oklahoma
Stephenson v. Burdett 56 W. Va. 109 1904 1 West Virginia
Rauch v. Fort Dearborn National Bank 223 Ill. 507 1906 1 Illinois
First Nat. Bank v. Burch 237 Ala. 680 1939 1 Alabama
Burke v. Valentine 5 Abb. Pr. 164 1868 1 New York
Van Steenwyck v. Washburn 59 Wis. 483 1884 1 Wisconsin