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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
Everett v. Smith 44 N.C. 303 1853 1 North Carolina
Rankin v. Newman 114 Cal. 635 1896 1 California
Balthrop v. Todd 145 N.C. 112 1907 1 North Carolina
West v. Seaboard Air Line Railway Co. 151 N.C. 231 1909 1 North Carolina
Sutton v. Sutton 141 Ark. 93 1919 1 Arkansas
Schumaker v. Schmidt 44 Ala. 454 1870 1 Alabama
Wyche v. Clapp 43 Tex. 543 1875 1 Texas
Betts v. Harper 39 Ohio St. 639 1884 1 Ohio
In re Davis' Will 120 N.C. 9 1897 1 North Carolina
In re Will of Cole 171 N.C. 74 1916 1 North Carolina
Ginn v. Edmundson 173 N.C. 85 1917 1 North Carolina
Bright v. Cox 147 Ga. 474 1917 1 Georgia
Richmond v. Richmond 189 Tenn. 625 1950 1 Tennessee
In re Davis 129 Misc. 447 1927 1 New York
Lindsay v. Hogg 41 N.C. 3 1849 1 North Carolina
Yerger v. Jones 57 U.S. 30 1853 1 United States
Hale v. Aaron 77 N.C. 371 1877 1 North Carolina
Green v. Barbee 84 N.C. 69 1881 1 North Carolina
Pickering v. Pickering 63 N.H. 468 1885 1 New Hampshire
Summers v. Reynolds 95 N.C. 404 1886 1 North Carolina