Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type ▲ Jurisdiction
Howe v. Treasurer of Plainfield 37 N.J.L. 145 1874 1 New Jersey
Owen v. State 862 So. 2d 687 2003 1 Florida
Thornton’s Case 11 Ill. 332 1849 1 Illinois
O'Neil v. Cleveland 30 N.J. Eq. 273 1878 1 New Jersey
Matter of Coates 3 Abb. Ct. App. 231 1856 1 New York
McKinne v. Dickenson 24 Fla. 366 1888 1 Florida
Freeman v. Robinson 7 Ind. 321 1855 1 Indiana
Thompson v. Thompson 5 W. Va. 190 1872 1 West Virginia
Rutter v. Sullivan 25 W. Va. 427 1885 1 West Virginia
Marks, Rothenberg & Co. v. N. H. & R. L. Bradley 69 Miss. 1 1891 1 Mississippi
People v. Ashe 44 Cal. 288 1872 1 California
Dunn v. Sanders 243 Ga. 684 1979 1 Georgia
Ex parte Bushnell 9 Ohio St. 76 1859 1 Ohio
State v. Chulpayev 296 Ga. 764 2015 1 acceptance of common law Georgia
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
Brown v. Seal 179 S.W.3d 481 2005 1 adverse possession Tennessee
Smejkal v. Smejkal No. 13-09-00285-CV, 2009 WL 3921039, at *2 n.6 (Tex. App. Nov. 19, 2009) 2009 1 adverse possession Texas
Redi-Floors, Inc. v. Sonenberg Co. 254 Ga. App. 615 2002 1 agency Georgia
First State Bank of Lineville v. Deeb (In re Deeb) 47 B.R. 848 1985 1 agriculture United States