Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▼ Law Type Jurisdiction
Meads v. Lansingh 1 Hopk. Ch. 124 1824 1 New York
Chace v. Lamphere 58 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 524 1889 1 New York
Newell v. Nichols 19 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 604 1878 1 New York
Harrison v. Baldwin 3 Ohio Cir. Dec. 154 1891 1 Ohio
Commonwealth v. Brown 138 Pa. 447 1891 1 Pennsylvania
Bryan v. Norfolk & Western Railway Co. 119 Tenn. 349 1907 1 Tennessee
Brown v. Bryant 17 Tex. Civ. App. 454 1897 1 Texas
Johnson v. Morton 28 Tex. Civ. App. 296 1902 1 Texas
Robinson v. Glenn 150 Tex. 169 1951 1 Texas
Tennessee v. Davis 100 U.S. 257 1879 1 United States
State ex rel. Scarborough v. Robinson 81 N.C. 409 1879 1 North Carolina
Smith v. Moore 90 Ind. 294 1883 1 Indiana
State ex rel. Silver v. Kendall 15 Neb. 262 1883 1 Nebraska
Lewis v. Garrett's Administrators 6 Miss. 434 1841 1 Mississippi
United States ex rel. White v. Bayard 16 D.C. 428 1887 1 District of Columbia
Castro v. Illies 22 Tex. 479 1858 1 Texas
Martin v. Ingham 38 Kan. 641 1888 1 Kansas
State ex rel. Carson v. Harrison 113 Ind. 434 1888 1 Indiana
State ex rel. Hope & Co. v. Board of Liquidation 42 La. 647 1890 1 Louisiana
Hovey v. State ex rel. Schuck 127 Ind. 588 1891 1 Indiana