Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
Slocum v. Wilbour 24 R.I. 11 1902 1 Rhode Island
Washington v. Washington 127 So. 2d 491 1960 1 Louisiana
Hughes v. Cory 20 Iowa 399 1866 1 Iowa
Whitesides v. Taylor 105 Ill. 496 1882 1 Illinois
Howard v. Illinois Trust & Savings Bank 189 Ill. 568 1901 1 Illinois
Briggs v. Parkman 43 Mass. 258 1841 1 Massachusetts
McLaughlin v. McLaughlin's Administrator 16 Mo. 242 1852 1 Missouri
Brooks v. Wimer 20 Mo. 503 1855 1 Missouri
Hambleton v. Yocum 108 Pa. 304 1885 1 Pennsylvania
Sander v. Piggly Wiggly Stores, Inc. 20 Tenn. App. 107 1936 1 Tennessee
Watson v. McCabe 381 F. Supp. 1124 1974 1 United States
Ferrell v. Southern Financial, Inc. (In re Ferrell) 175 B.R. 222 1994 1 United States
Shell Oil Co. v. State Tire & Oil Co. 126 F.2d 971 1942 1 United States
Griffith v. Blackwater Boom & Lumber Co. 55 W. Va. 604 1904 1 West Virginia
duPont v. Standard Arms Co. 9 Del. Ch. 315 1912 1 Delaware
Prater v. Prater 94 S.C. 267 1913 1 South Carolina
Williams v. Butler 58 Ind. App. 47 1914 1 Indiana
Smith's Estate 59 Pa. Super. 8 1915 1 Pennsylvania
Burgh v. Bush 181 N.C. 125 1921 1 North Carolina
Viser v. Willard 60 Fla. 395 1910 1 Florida