Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
Commonwealth v. Nailor 29 Pa. Super. 275 1905 1 Pennsylvania
Meadowcroft v. People 163 Ill. 56 1896 1 Illinois
Bowden v. Taggart 17 Va. 513 1811 1 Virginia
Boswell v. First National Bank of Laramie 16 Wyo. 161 1907 1 Wyoming
Hadfield v. Jameson 16 Va. 53 1809 1 Virginia
Green v. Price 15 Va. 449 1810 1 Virginia
Emerson v. Shirley 175 So. 909 1937 1 Louisiana
Sharp v. Sharp 227 La. 9 1955 1 Louisiana
Sullivan's Lessee v. Brown 1 Tenn. 6 1799 1 Tennessee
St. L., I. M. & So. Ry. Co. v. Grafton 51 Ark. 504 1889 1 Arkansas
Beal-Doyle Dry Goods Co. v. Carr 85 Ark. 479 1908 1 Arkansas
Wharton v. People 104 Colo. 260 1939 1 Colorado
Baker v. State 30 Fla. 41 1892 1 Florida
Collins v. Carlile 13 Ill. 254 1851 1 Illinois
Stigers v. Stigers 5 Kan. 652 1865 1 Kansas
State v. Mullen 14 La. Ann. 570 1859 1 Louisiana
Baugher v. Merryman 32 Md. 185 1870 1 Maryland
Wyngert v. Norton 4 Mich. 286 1856 1 Michigan
Bagg v. Jerome 7 Mich. 145 1859 1 Michigan
Belote v. Morrison 8 Minn. 87 1863 1 Minnesota