Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Averill v. Sawyer 62 Conn. 560 1893 1 Connecticut
Turner v. Smith 112 Ala. 334 1895 1 Alabama
Tillaux v. Tillaux 115 Cal. 663 1897 1 California
Blount County Bank v. Robinett 23 Ala. App. 145 1929 1 Alabama
Sharpe v. Hunter 16 Ala. 765 1849 1 Alabama
White v. Wyley 17 Ala. 167 1850 1 Alabama
Floyd v. Hamilton 33 Ala. 235 1858 1 Alabama
Morris & Morris v. Files 40 Tex. 374 1874 1 Texas
E. M. Tillman & Co. v. R. B. Adams & Co. 2 Wilson 266 1884 1 Texas
Oberne v. O'Donnell 35 Ill. App. 180 1889 1 Illinois
State ex rel. Rife v. Reynolds 137 Mo. App. 261 1909 1 Missouri
Janko v. Commercial Security Co. 23 Ga. App. 655 1919 1 Georgia
Standard Oil Co. v. Davis 208 Ala. 565 1922 1 Alabama
Brown v. Scheuer, Wise & Co. 210 Ala. 47 1923 1 Alabama
Allison-Russell-Withington Co. v. Sommers 219 Ala. 33 1929 1 Alabama
Dubuisson v. Folkes 30 Miss. 432 1855 1 Mississippi
McCarty v. Roots 62 U.S. 432 1858 1 United States
Heath v. Bank 44 N.H. 174 1860 1 New Hampshire
Riley v. Gregg 16 Wis. 666 1863 1 Wisconsin
Harmon v. Hale 1 Wash. Terr. 422 1874 1 Washington