Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Love v. Belk 36 N.C. 163 1840 1 North Carolina
Jenkins v. Cockerham 23 N.C. 309 1840 1 North Carolina
Reed v. Benton & Manchester Rail Road & Banking Co. 5 Miss. 257 1840 1 Mississippi
State v. Stalcup 23 N.C. 30 1840 1 North Carolina
Neibert's Administrators v. Withers 1 Miss. (S. & M. Ch.) 599 1840 1 Mississippi
Shaw v. McFarlane 23 N.C. 216 1840 1 North Carolina
Brown v. Long 36 N.C. 190 1840 1 North Carolina
Walton v. Erwin 36 N.C. 136 1840 1 North Carolina
Green v. Burke 23 Wend. 490 1840 1 New York
Wright v. Steamboat Vesta 6 Miss. 152 1840 1 Mississippi
State v. Buchanan 23 N.C. 59 1840 1 North Carolina
Bozeman v. Gilbert 1 Ala. 90 1840 1 Alabama
Lyle v. Higginbotham 37 Va. 63 1839 1 Virginia
Hoppess v. Straw 37 Va. 348 1839 1 Virginia
Tide Water Canal Co. v. Archer 9 G. & J. 479 1839 1 Maryland
Platt v. Howland 37 Va. 507 1839 1 Virginia
Otis v. Strafford 10 N.H. 352 1839 1 New Hampshire
Sumner v. Moore 23 F. Cas. 389 1839 1 United States
Den on dem. Huggins v. Ketchum 20 N.C. 414 1839 1 North Carolina
Johnson v. Planters Bank 20 Tenn. 77 1839 1 Tennessee