Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction ▲
Schlee v. Guckenheimer 76 Ill. App. 681 1898 1 Illinois
Wright v. Comley 14 Ill. App. 551 1884 1 Illinois
Cheney v. Roodhouse 135 Ill. 257 1890 1 Illinois
Woolley v. Schrader 116 Ill. 29 1886 1 Illinois
Christy v. Christy 225 Ill. 547 1907 1 Illinois
Young v. Bennett 5 Ill. 43 1842 1 Illinois
Beattie v. Whipple 154 Ill. 273 1894 1 Illinois
Bay v. Cook 31 Ill. 336 1863 1 Illinois
Dorr v. People 228 Ill. 216 1907 1 Illinois
Illinois & St. Louis Railroad & Coal Co. v. Cobb 94 Ill. 55 1879 1 Illinois
Thornton’s Case 11 Ill. 332 1849 1 Illinois
Ferguson v. Sutphen 8 Ill. 547 1846 1 Illinois
Catholic University of America v. Boyd 227 Ill. 281 1907 1 Illinois
North v. People 139 Ill. 81 1891 1 Illinois
Wood v. Williams 142 Ill. 269 1892 1 Illinois
Curtiss v. Brown 29 Ill. 201 1862 1 Illinois
Yeaton v. Yeaton 4 Ill. App. 579 1879 1 Illinois
Grant v. Bennett 96 Ill. 513 1880 1 Illinois
Millard v. County of Richland 13 Ill. App. 527 1883 1 Illinois
Arms v. City of Knoxville 32 Ill. App. 604 1889 1 Illinois