Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
Goodell v. Hibbard 32 Mich. 47 1875 1 Michigan
Rosenthal v. Mayhugh 33 Ohio St. 155 1877 1 Ohio
Bibb v. Bibb 79 Ala. 437 1885 1 Alabama
McClaugherty v. Croft 43 W. Va. 270 1897 1 West Virginia
Edwards v. Edwards 142 Ala. 267 1904 1 Alabama
Ex parte Dalton 44 Ohio St. 142 1886 1 Ohio
Backhouse's Adm'x v. Jones's Ex'or 9 Va. 462 1805 1 Virginia
Quarles's Administratrix v. Littlepage 12 Va. 401 1808 1 Virginia
Gilpin v. Plummer 10 F. Cas. 419 1812 1 United States
Gilpin v. Plummer 2 D.C. 54 1812 1 United States
Executors of Niemcewicz v. Bartlett 13 Ohio 271 1844 1 Ohio
Bonsack & Kiser v. Roanoke County 75 Va. 585 1881 1 Virginia
Gray v. Kemp 88 Va. 201 1891 1 Virginia
Cox v. Phelps 65 Ark. 1 1897 1 Arkansas
Bierce v. State Nat. Bank 33 Okla. 776 1912 1 Oklahoma
Merriam v. Wagener 74 Minn. 215 1898 1 Minnesota
Beck v. Haas 31 Mo. App. 180 1888 1 Missouri
Battery Park National Bank v. Brown 85 N.J. Eq. 70 1915 1 New Jersey
Kelso v. Cuming 1 Redf. 392 1863 1 New York
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad v. Evans 53 Pa. 250 1867 1 Pennsylvania