Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Knight v. State 116 Ala. 486 1897 1 Alabama
Stevens v. Melcher 152 N.Y. 551 1897 1 New York
Illinois Central Railroad v. LeBlanc 74 Miss. 650 1897 1 Mississippi
Street v. Duncan 117 Ala. 571 1897 1 Alabama
Hamilton v. Phillips Bros. 120 Ala. 177 1897 1 Alabama
Addyston Pipe & Steel Co. v. City of Chicago 170 Ill. 580 1897 1 Illinois
Perry & Co. v. King 117 Ala. 533 1897 1 Alabama
Powers v. Hibbard 114 Mich. 533 1897 1 Michigan
Rittenhouse v. Wilmington Street-Railway Co. 120 N.C. 544 1897 1 North Carolina
Daisy Roller Mills v. Ward 6 N.D. 317 1897 1 North Dakota
Gorrell v. Alspaugh 120 N.C. 362 1897 1 North Carolina
Hughes v. Powers 99 Tenn. 480 1897 1 Tennessee
New Prague Milling Co. v. Schreiner 70 Minn. 125 1897 1 Minnesota
Smith v. Vulcan Iron Works 165 U.S. 518 1897 1 United States
Kenderdine Hydro-Carbon Fuel Co. v. Plumb 182 Pa. 463 1897 1 Pennsylvania
Weil v. Schwartz 49 La. Ann. 582 1897 1 Louisiana
State v. Smith 49 La. Ann. 1515 1897 1 Louisiana
Patterson v. Mills 121 N.C. 258 1897 1 North Carolina
State ex rel. Sintes v. Rightor 49 La. Ann. 696 1897 1 Louisiana
Hale v. Bugg 82 F. 33 1897 1 United States