Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Oakley v. Oakley 3 Dem. Sur. 140 1884 1 New York
State ex rel. Tharington v. Tharington 99 N.C. 118 1888 1 North Carolina
Williams v. Bonner 79 Miss. 664 1901 1 Mississippi
Duffy v. Williams 133 N.C. 195 1903 1 North Carolina
Kuykendall v. Proctor 270 N.C. 510 1967 1 North Carolina
Bell v. Thompson 34 Ala. 633 1859 1 Alabama
Leiter v. Pike 127 Ill. 287 1889 1 Illinois
Knudtson v. Robinson 18 N.D. 12 1908 1 North Dakota
Noble v. Moses Bros. 74 Ala. 604 1883 1 Alabama
Klose v. Hillenbrand 88 Cal. 473 1891 1 California
Taylor v. Heggie 83 N.C. 244 1880 1 North Carolina
Cogdell v. Wilmington & Weldon Railroad 132 N.C. 852 1903 1 North Carolina
State v. Morris 104 N.C. 837 1889 1 North Carolina
State v. Hedden 187 N.C. 803 1924 1 North Carolina
State v. Maslin 195 N.C. 537 1928 1 North Carolina
Clark v. Mathewson 7 App. D.C. 382 1896 1 District of Columbia
Phillips v. Yon 61 S.C. 426 1901 1 South Carolina
First National Bank of Lumberton v. McCaskill 174 N.C. 362 1917 1 North Carolina
Grover v. Grover 30 Mo. 400 1860 1 Missouri
Kinseley v. Rumbough 96 N.C. 193 1887 1 North Carolina