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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type ▼ Jurisdiction
Hill v. Felton 47 Ga. 455 1872 0 Construction of will Supreme Court of Georgia
Dumas v. Robinson 40 Ga. 349 1869 0 Construction of will Supreme Court of Georgia
Gibbon v. Gibbon 40 Ga. 562 1869 0 Construction of will Supreme Court of Georgia
Hollingshed v. Alston 13 Ga. 277 1853 0 Construction of will Supreme Court of Georgia
Sorsby v. Vance 36 Miss. 564 1858 0 Construction of will Mississippi
Whitlock v. Vaun 38 Ga. 562 1868 0 Construction of will Supreme Court of Georgia
Shivers v. Goar 40 Ga. 676 1870 0 Construction of will Supreme Court of Georgia
Johnson v. Miller 33 Miss. 553 1857 0 Construction of portion of proceeds from will Mississippi
Haughton v. Brandon 40 Miss. 729 1866 0 Construction of last will and testament Mississippi
Sims v. Conger 39 Miss. 231 1860 0 Construction of contingency in will Mississippi
Currie v. Murphy 35 Miss. 473 1858 0 Construction of clauses in will bequeathing slaves Mississippi
Gray v. Bridgeforth 33 Miss. 312 1857 0 Construction of clause in will Mississippi
Davis v. Herndon 39 Miss. 484 1860 0 Construction of a deed loaning slaves for life Mississippi
Sherrod v. Sherrod's Adm'rs 38 Ala. 537 1863 0 Construction dispute Alabama
African Methodist Episcopal Church v. City of New Orleans 15 La. Ann. 441 1860 0 Constitutional law, free persons, property Louisiana
Administrator of Allen v. Peden 5 N.C. 638 1816 0 Constitutional Law North Carolina
Horton v. Oregon Health & Sci. Univ. 359 Or. 168 2016 1 constitutionality of statute limiting tort damages Oregon
State v. Henry 15 La. Ann. 297 1860 0 Constitutional Interpretation, Criminal Law Louisiana
A.B. v. State 949 N.E.2d 1204 2011 1 const. interp Indiana
United States v. Spalding 4 D.C. 616 1835 0 Conspiracy to sell a freeperson as a slave United States