Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
Swink v. Swink 6 N.C. App. 161 1969 1 North Carolina
Howe v. Colby 19 Wis. 583 1865 1 Wisconsin
Taylor v. Eatman 92 N.C. 601 1885 1 North Carolina
Langdon v. Astor 10 N.Y. Super. Ct. 477 1854 1 New York
Newton v. Seaman's Friend Society 130 Mass. 91 1881 1 Massachusetts
Dyer v. Erving 2 Dem. Sur. 160 1882 1 New York
Siler v. Dorsett 108 N.C. 300 1891 1 North Carolina
McLane v. McTighe 89 Ala. 411 1889 1 Alabama
Lockbihler v. Young 123 Cal. 337 1899 1 California
Watson v. Hinson 162 N.C. 72 1913 1 North Carolina
White v. Reading 293 Mo. 347 1922 1 Missouri
Tillman v. City of Carthage 297 Mo. 74 1923 1 Missouri
Knox v. Knox 208 N.C. 141 1935 1 North Carolina
Clinard v. Commissioner 40 T.C. 878 1963 1 United States
Union Ditch Co. v. Leete 24 Nev. 345 1898 1 Nevada
Armstrong v. Polakavetz 191 N.C. 731 1926 1 North Carolina
Bohannon v. Trotman 214 N.C. 706 1939 1 North Carolina
Clemens v. Walker 40 Ala. 189 1866 1 Alabama
Culver v. Hardenbergh 37 Minn. 225 1887 1 Minnesota
Packer v. Owens 164 Pa. 185 1894 1 Pennsylvania