Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
Murdock v. Columbus Insurance & Banking 59 Miss. 152 1881 1 Mississippi
Brown v. Thompson 99 W. Va. 56 1925 1 West Virginia
Carter v. Carter 87 W. Va. 254 1920 1 West Virginia
Shelton v. Cocke 17 Va. 191 1811 1 Virginia
Hale v. Crow 50 Va. 263 1852 1 Virginia
Strader v. Goff 6 W. Va. 257 1873 1 West Virginia
Patterson v. Patterson 59 N.Y. 574 1875 1 New York
Hall v. Hall 12 W. Va. 1 1877 1 West Virginia
Mann v. Bryant 12 W. Va. 516 1878 1 West Virginia
State ex rel. Lanham v. Harmon 15 W. Va. 115 1879 1 West Virginia
White v. Thompson 79 Me. 207 1887 1 Maine
Daingerfield v. Smith 83 Va. 81 1887 1 Virginia
In re Sharp 5 Dem. Sur. 516 1887 1 New York
Belvin's Ex'ors v. French 84 Va. 81 1887 1 Virginia
Staples' Ex'ors v. Staples 85 Va. 76 1888 1 Virginia
Galbraith v. Howard 11 Tex. Civ. App. 230 1895 1 Texas
Shaffer v. Bacon 35 A.D. 248 1898 1 New York
West v. Richmond Railway & Electric Co. 102 Va. 339 1904 1 Virginia
Altgelt v. Alamo National Bank 98 Tex. 252 1904 1 Texas
White v. McFarland 148 Mo. App. 338 1910 1 Missouri