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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type ▲ Jurisdiction
Murphy v. Clark 9 Miss. 221 1843 0 Adminstration of estate dispute Mississippi
Payne v. Turner 36 Ala. 623 1860 0 Adminstrator of an estate dispute Alabama
Gayle v. Elliott 10 Ala. 264 1846 0 Adminstrator of estate dispute Alabama
Fisher v. Leach 18 Miss. 313 1848 0 Adminstrator of estate dispute Mississippi
Harbin v. Levi 6 Ala. 399 1844 0 Adminstrator of estate dispute Alabama
Robinson v. Martel 11 Tex. 149 1853 0 Adminstrator of estate dispute Texas
Gedney v. L'Amistad 10 F. Cas. 141 1840 0 Admiralty United States
United States v. Ninety Six Thousand Three Hundred Seventy Dollars No. 3:14-CV-356-WHA, 2014 WL 6065559, at 4, n.2 (M.D. Ala. Nov. 12, 2014) 2014 1 admiralty/juris. Alabama
Baker v. State 71 So. 3d 802 2011 1 Admissability of confession Florida
Pitts v. State 43 Miss. 472 1871 0 Admissibility of an extra-judicial confession Mississippi
Vicksburg & Meridian R. R. v. Green 42 Miss. 436 1869 0 Admissibility of Emancipation Proclamation as evidence of a slave's emancipation for recovery purposes Mississippi
State v. Dick 60 N.C. 45 1864 0 Admissibility of Evidence North Carolina
Smith v. State 39 Ala. 554 1865 0 Adultery action Alabama
Jeter v. Jeter 36 Ala. 391 1860 0 Adultery action Alabama
May v. May 15 Ala. 177 1849 0 Advancement of Enslaved Personsdispute Alabama
Jackson v. Jackson 28 Miss. 674 1855 0 Advancement of slaves Mississippi
State Bank v. Williams 6 Ark. 156 1845 0 Adverse posession of a enslaved person Arkansas
Lewis & Nichols v. Gilmer 11 Miss. 560 1844 0 Adverse posession of a slave Mississippi
Daniels v. Street 15 Ark. 307 1854 0 Adverse posession of enslaved person Arkansas
Crabtree v. McDaniel 17 Ark. 222 1856 0 Adverse posession of enslaved person Arkansas