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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type ▼ Jurisdiction
Sewall v. Henry 9 Ala. 24 1846 0 Detinue Alabama
Adams v. Garrett 12 Ala. 229 1847 0 Detinue Alabama
Jones v. Parks 22 Ala. 446 1853 0 Detinue Alabama
Brown v. Brown 13 Ala. 208 1848 0 Detinue Alabama
Merriwether v. Eames 17 Ala. 330 1850 0 Detinue Alabama
Bernard v. Herbert 3 D.C. 346 1828 0 Detinue United States
Bernard v. McKenna 4 D.C. 130 1831 0 Detinue United States
Traun v. Keiffer 31 Ala. 136 1857 0 Detinue Alabama
Woodley v. Findlay 9 Ala. 716 1846 0 Detinue Alabama
Landman v. Snodgrass 26 Ala. 593 1855 0 detinue Alabama
Jones v. Wootten 1 Del. 77 1832 0 Determining whether a person was enslaved Delaware
Clark v. Gautier 8 Fla. 360 1859 0 Detainment of a Freed Man Supreme Court of FL
Cobean v. Thompson 1 Pen. & W. 93 1829 0 Designation dispute? SC of PA.
Poindexter's executors v. Barker 3 N.C. 173 1802 0 Descent & Distribution North Carolina
Isbell v. Butler Jeff. 10 1735 0 Descent & Distribution General Ct. of VA
Rutherford v. Craik's executors 3 N.C. 262 1803 0 Descent & Distribution North Carolina
Allen v. Allen 1 Jefferson 86 1769 0 Descent & Distribution General Ct. of VA
Brent v. Porter 1 Jefferson 72 1768 0 Descent & Distribution General Ct. of VA
Graham v. Davidson 22 N.C. 155 1838 0 Descent & Distribution North Carolina
Gatlin v. Darden 21 N.C. 72 1835 0 Descent & Distribution North Carolina