Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type ▲ Jurisdiction
Stewart v. Hall 83 Ky. 375 1885 1 Kentucky
Hunckel v. Voneiff 69 Md. 179 1888 1 Maryland
Hart v. Baxter 47 Mich. 198 1881 1 Michigan
Fisher v. Keithley 142 Mo. 244 1897 1 Missouri
Nissen v. Cramer 104 N.C. 574 1889 1 North Carolina
Kern v. Kern 51 N.J. Eq. 574 1893 1 New Jersey
Burnham v. Comfort 108 N.Y. 535 1888 1 New York
In re Turfler's Estate 1 Pow. Surr. 389 1892 1 New York
Scholze v. Scholze 2 Tenn. App. 80 1925 1 Tennessee
Cannon v. Cannon 7 Tenn. App. 19 1928 1 Tennessee
Shadden v. McElwee 86 Tenn. 146 1887 1 Tennessee
Johnson v. King & Davidson 64 Tex. 226 1885 1 Texas
Johnson v. Brown 13 W. Va. 73 1878 1 West Virginia
Cooper v. Armour 42 F. 215 1890 1 United States
J. G. White Engineering Corp. v. Peoples State Bank of Lakeland 81 Fla. 35 1921 1 Florida
Metzenbaum v. Metzenbaum 115 Cal. App. 2d 395 1953 1 California
Donahue v. Davis 68 So. 2d 163 1953 1 Florida
Mahin v. Mahin 169 So. 665 1936 1 Florida
Guaranty Trust & Savings Bank v. United States Trust Co. 89 Fla. 324 1925 1 Florida
Hitchcolk v. Mortgage Securities Corp. 95 Fla. 147 1928 1 Florida