Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction ▲
Robertson v. Gillenwaters 85 Va. 116 1888 1 Virginia
Taliaferro v. Day 82 Va. 79 1886 1 Virginia
Brown v. Brown's Adm'r 72 Va. 502 1879 1 Virginia
Stone's Ex'or v. Nicholson 68 Va. 1 1876 1 Virginia
Steptoe v. Read 60 Va. 1 1868 1 Virginia
Elam v. Keen 31 Va. 333 1833 1 Virginia
Ewing v. Ewing 29 Va. 337 1830 1 Virginia
Johnson v. Gibbons 68 Va. 632 1876 1 Virginia
Northwestern Bank v. Nelson 42 Va. 109 1844 1 Virginia
Burchard v. Wright 38 Va. 463 1840 1 Virginia
Lyle v. Higginbotham 37 Va. 63 1839 1 Virginia
Harman v. Oberdorfer 74 Va. 497 1880 1 Virginia
Paine v. Tutwiler 68 Va. 440 1876 1 Virginia
Lamberts v. Cooper's 70 Va. 61 1877 1 Virginia
Lavell v. Gold's Adm'r 66 Va. 473 1874 1 Virginia
Ballow v. Hudson 54 Va. 672 1857 1 Virginia
Commonwealth v. Fleet 152 Va. 353 1929 1 Virginia
Jeffress v. Commonwealth 152 Va. 100 1929 1 Virginia
Nuckolls & Phipps v. Commonwealth 127 Va. 640 1920 1 Virginia
Peters v. City of Lynchburg 76 Va. 927 1882 1 Virginia