Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
State v. Randolph 22 Mo. 474 1856 1 Missouri
State v. Eldred 31 Ala. 393 1858 1 Alabama
Gray v. State 43 Ala. 41 1869 1 Alabama
Gresham v. State 48 Ala. 625 1872 1 Alabama
Bell v. State 79 Tex. Crim. 407 1916 1 Texas
Bell v. State 186 S.W. 328 1916 1 Texas
Woodall v. Kelly & Co. 85 Ala. 368 1888 1 Alabama
Howell v. Carden 99 Ala. 100 1891 1 Alabama
Shelby v. Ziegler 22 Okla. 799 1908 1 Oklahoma
Drain v. F. S. Royster Guano Co. 231 Ala. 422 1936 1 Alabama
Mitchell v. Conway 257 Ala. 648 1952 1 Alabama
Butler v. Hughes 271 Ala. 363 1960 1 Alabama
Owen v. Henderson 7 Ala. 641 1845 1 Alabama
Creagh v. Savage 9 Ala. 959 1846 1 Alabama
Martin v. Martin 35 Ala. 560 1860 1 Alabama
Peay v. Wright 22 Ark. 198 1860 1 Arkansas
Farmers & Mechanics' Bank v. City of Detroit 12 Mich. 445 1864 1 Michigan
Ragland's Executors v. Morton 41 Ala. 344 1867 1 Alabama
Ferguson v. Scott 49 Miss. 500 1873 1 Mississippi
Sullivan v. Portland & Kennebec Railroad 94 U.S. 806 1876 1 United States