Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
Cattell v. Dispatch Publishing Co. 88 Mo. 356 1885 1 Missouri
Traube v. State 56 Miss. 153 1878 1 Mississippi
Diffendarfer v. Dicks 105 N.Y. 445 1887 1 New York
Bowman v. Harby 109 S.C. 396 1918 1 South Carolina
Shaw v. State 2 Tex. Ct. App. 487 1877 1 Texas
Miles v. State 3 Tex. Ct. App. 58 1877 1 Texas
Harrison v. Harrison 160 Md. 378 1931 1 Maryland
Schill v. Remington-Putnam Book Co. 182 Md. 153 1943 1 Maryland
Gentry v. McMinnis 33 Ky. 382 1835 1 Kentucky
McKee v. Jones 6 Pa. 425 1847 1 Pennsylvania
Triplett v. Romine's Adm'r 74 Va. 651 1880 1 Virginia
Greenhow v. James' Ex'or 80 Va. 636 1885 1 Virginia
Vance v. Ellerbe 150 La. 387 1922 1 Louisiana
Hall v. Richardson 16 Md. 396 1860 1 Maryland
Colbert v. Baetjer 4 App. D.C. 416 1894 1 District of Columbia
Boggess v. Richards's Adm'r 39 W. Va. 567 1894 1 West Virginia
Williamson v. First National Bank of Williamson 111 W. Va. 720 1931 1 West Virginia
Kinney v. Beverley 11 Va. 531 1807 1 Virginia
Sargent v. Towne 10 Mass. 308 1813 1 Massachusetts
Doe ex dem. Kennedy's Heirs v. Reynolds 27 Ala. 364 1855 1 Alabama