Case Name Citation ▼ Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Bill v. Mason 6 Mass. 313 1810 1 Massachusetts
Kent v. Barker 68 Mass. 535 1854 1 Massachusetts
Commonwealth v. Hilliard 68 Mass. 294 1854 1 Massachusetts
Fay v. Sylvester 68 Mass. 171 1854 1 Massachusetts
Orcutt v. Nelson 67 Mass. 536 1854 1 Massachusetts
Weeks v. Holmes 66 Mass. 215 1853 1 Massachusetts
Commonwealth v. Chapman 65 Mass. 422 1853 1 Massachusetts
Ayres v. Waite 64 Mass. 72 1852 1 Massachusetts
Inhabitants of Edgartown v. Inhabitants of Tisbury 64 Mass. 408 1852 0 Assumpsit to recover expenses incurred in support of slave Massachusetts
Sheckell v. Jackson 64 Mass. 25 1852 0 Manumission of a fugitive slave Massachusetts
Inhabitants of Canton v. Inhabitants of Dorchester 62 Mass. 525 1851 1 Massachusetts
Sims’s Case 61 Mass. 285 1851 0 Petition for freedom Massachusetts
Proprietors of St. Luke's Church v. Slack 61 Mass. 226 1851 1 Massachusetts
Preble v. Baldwin 60 Mass. 549 1850 1 Massachusetts
Kimball v. Thompson 58 Mass. 441 1849 1 Massachusetts
Meigs v. Mutual Marine Insurance 56 Mass. 439 1848 1 Massachusetts
Linda v. Hudson 55 Mass. 385 1848 0 Action for illegally seizing slave Massachusetts
Brimmer v. Sohier 55 Mass. 118 1848 1 Massachusetts
Wheaton v. Wilmarth 54 Mass. 422 1847 1 Massachusetts
Proprietors of the Canal Bridge v. Trustees of the Methodist Religious Society 54 Mass. 335 1847 1 Massachusetts