Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Ben Cheeseman Realty Co. v. Thompson 216 Ala. 9 1927 1 Alabama
Mobile & O. R. v. Williams 219 Ala. 238 1929 1 Alabama
Watkins v. Potts 219 Ala. 427 1929 1 Alabama
Burns v. State 226 Ala. 117 1932 1 Alabama
City of Dothan v. Hardy 237 Ala. 603 1939 1 Alabama
Franklin v. State 29 Ala. App. 306 1940 1 Alabama
Wilson v. State 243 Ala. 1 1942 1 Alabama
Smarr v. State 260 Ala. 30 1953 1 Alabama
Ruth v. Fenchel 37 N.J. Super. 295 1955 1 New Jersey
Wiggins v. State 39 Ala. App. 433 1958 1 Alabama
Jones v. Bloom 388 Mich. 98 1972 1 Michigan
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. v. Nichols 393 So. 2d 966 1981 1 Alabama
Trull v. Long 621 So. 2d 1278 1993 1 Alabama
Crothers v. Lee 29 Ala. 337 1856 1 Alabama
Pitts v. Powledge 56 Ala. 147 1876 1 Alabama
Ray's Adm'r v. Womble 56 Ala. 32 1876 1 Alabama
Winter v. Merrick & Sons 69 Ala. 86 1881 1 Alabama
Olmstead v. Abbott 61 Vt. 281 1888 1 Vermont
Skains v. Barnes 168 Ala. 426 1910 1 Alabama
Norris v. Elliott 39 Cal. 72 1870 1 California