Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
Blessing v. City of Galveston 42 Tex. 641 1874 1 Texas
Ex parte Francis 72 Tex. Crim. 304 1914 1 Texas
Savage v. Commonwealth 84 Va. 619 1888 1 Virginia
Buffalo v. Town of Pocahontas 85 Va. 222 1888 1 Virginia
Ex parte Bassitt 90 Va. 679 1894 1 Virginia
Christie v. Malden 23 W. Va. 667 1884 1 West Virginia
Gallaher v. City of Moundsville 34 W. Va. 730 1891 1 West Virginia
Winifrede Coal Co. v. Board of Education 47 W. Va. 132 1899 1 West Virginia
McClung v. Livesay 7 W. Va. 329 1874 1 West Virginia
Territory ex rel. Smith v. Scott 3 Dakota 357 1884 1 Dakota Territory
Dodds v. Lanaux 45 La. Ann. 287 1893 1 Louisiana
McClements v. Downey 2 Pa. Super. 443 1896 1 Pennsylvania
Auman v. Hough 31 Pa. Super. 337 1906 1 Pennsylvania
Norris v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad 218 Pa. 88 1907 1 Pennsylvania
Gamble v. Central Pennsylvania Lumber Co. 225 Pa. 288 1909 1 Pennsylvania
In re the appeal from the probate of a paper-writing purporting to be the last will and testament of Brengel 85 N.J. Eq. 487 1915 1 New Jersey
In re Berrien’s Will 5 N.Y.S. 37 1889 1 New York
Hurley v. O’Brien 34 Or. 58 1898 1 Oregon
Laughlin v. Ludgate 138 Or. 442 1932 1 Oregon
Wohlford v. Wohlford 121 Va. 699 1917 1 Virginia