Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type ▲ Jurisdiction
Downing v. State 11 Wyo. 86 1902 1 Wyoming
Arnold v. Eastin’s Trustee 116 Ky. 686 1903 1 Kentucky
Overseers of Germantown v. Overseers of the Poor of Livingston 2 Cai. 106 1804 0 SC of New York
Henderson v. Alford 1 La. App. 791 1925 1 Louisiana
Tootle & Maule v. Dunn 6 Neb. 93 1877 1 Nebraska
Knowlton v. Hawes 10 Neb. 534 1880 1 Nebraska
Combs v. Winchester 39 N.H. 13 1859 1 New Hampshire
Hunt v. Bennett 4 E.D. Smith 647 1855 1 New York
People v. Ware 1 N.Y. Crim. 166 1883 1 New York
Smith v. Henry 19 S.C.L. 16 1833 1 South Carolina
Gregg v. Bigham 19 S.C.L. 299 1833 1 South Carolina
Yeakle, Cobb & Co. v. George 46 S.C.L. 153 1859 1 South Carolina
Baker & Lockwood Manufacturing Co. v. Clayton 40 Tex. Civ. App. 586 1905 1 Texas
National Cattle Loan Co. v. Ward 113 Tex. 312 1923 1 Texas
Bergen v. Producers’ Marble Yard 72 Tex. 53 1888 1 Texas
Tiffee v. Linsley 10 Tex. Civ. App. 465 1895 1 Texas
Brown v. Bacon 63 Tex. 595 1885 1 Texas
Howard v. J. H. Britton & Co. 71 Tex. 286 1888 1 Texas
Wilson v. Prewett 30 F. Cas. 156 1878 1 United States
Breckenridge State Bank v. Nelson 8 La. App. 792 1928 1 Louisiana