Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
Ruggles v. Williams 38 Tenn. 141 1858 1 Tennessee
Gulley v. Macy 84 N.C. 434 1881 1 North Carolina
Ives v. Stone 51 Conn. 446 1884 1 Connecticut
Peck v. Manning 99 N.C. 157 1888 1 North Carolina
Waters v. Crabtree 105 N.C. 394 1890 1 North Carolina
Rock Island National Bank v. Powers 134 Mo. 432 1896 1 Missouri
Dixon National Bank v. Western Lumber Co. 68 Mo. App. 81 1896 1 Missouri
Bernhardt v. Brown 122 N.C. 587 1898 1 North Carolina
Foster ex rel. Foster v. Moore 204 N.C. 9 1933 1 North Carolina
Scott v. Indianapolis Wagon Works 48 Ind. 75 1874 1 Indiana
Featherston v. Wilson 123 N.C. 623 1898 1 North Carolina
Kincaid v. Howe 10 Mass. 203 1813 1 Massachusetts
Britt v. Patterson 31 N.C. 197 1848 1 North Carolina
McLain v. People ex rel. Moore 85 Ill. 205 1877 1 Illinois
Doe on demise of Williams v. Harrington 33 N.C. 616 1850 1 North Carolina
In re Dodd 62 N.C. 97 1867 1 North Carolina
Van Heuvel v. Long 200 Ala. 27 1917 1 Alabama
Lee v. Macon County Bank 233 Ala. 522 1937 1 Alabama
Hope v. Wilkinson 82 Tenn. 21 1884 1 Tennessee
Smith v. Cairns 92 Tex. 667 1899 1 Texas