Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type ▲ Jurisdiction
Backus v. Taylor 20 Va. 488 1820 1 Virginia
Edmonds v. Green 22 Va. 44 1822 1 Virginia
Fairfax v. Lewis 23 Va. 20 1823 1 Virginia
Stout v. Jackson 23 Va. 132 1823 1 Virginia
Lewis v. Weldon 24 Va. 71 1824 1 Virginia
Graham v. Bardin 1 Va. (Patt. & Heath) 206 1855 1 Virginia
McClure's Executors v. Gamble 27 Pa. 288 1856 1 Pennsylvania
Howell v. State 162 Ga. 14 1926 1 Georgia
Brandon v. State 169 Ga. 808 1930 1 Georgia
McColl v. Jordan 200 Iowa 961 1925 1 Iowa
State v. Buckner 52 Ind. 278 1875 1 Indiana
Kimball v. Thompson 58 Mass. 441 1849 1 Massachusetts
Burt v. McKinstry 4 Minn. 204 1860 1 Minnesota
Knox v. Hunt & Labeaume 18 Mo. 174 1853 1 Missouri
Ziekel v. Douglass 88 Mo. 382 1885 1 Missouri
Betts v. Demumbrune 3 Tenn. 39 1812 1 Tennessee
Moore v. Berry 40 Tenn. App. 1 1955 1 Tennessee
Neal v. Peden 38 Tenn. 546 1858 1 Tennessee
Carney v. Carney 66 Tenn. 284 1874 1 Tennessee
United States v. Griswold 8 F. 556 1881 1 United States