Case Name Citation Year ▲ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Boeckler v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co. 10 Mo. App. 448 1881 1 Missouri
Beecher v. Bush 45 Mich. 188 1881 1 Michigan
Larison v. Larison 9 Ill. App. 27 1881 1 Illinois
Haynie v. Chicago & Alton Railroad 9 Ill. App. 105 1881 1 Illinois
Hudson v. Swan 83 N.Y. 552 1881 1 New York
City of New Orleans v. Vergnole 33 La. Ann. 35 1881 1 Louisiana
Burns v. Ledbetter 54 Tex. 374 1881 1 Texas
Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Co. v. Shryock 9 Ill. App. 323 1881 1 Illinois
Sterne v. McKinney 79 Ind. 578 1881 1 Indiana
Gilliam v. South, & North Alabama Railroad 70 Ala. 268 1881 1 Alabama
Kendall v. Grice 12 D.C. 279 1881 1 District of Columbia
People v. Wiltshire 9 Ill. App. 374 1881 1 Illinois
Howes v. Inhabitants of Belfast 72 Me. 46 1881 1 Maine
State ex rel. Pugh v. Judge of the Twentieth Judicial District Court 33 La. Ann. 1381 1881 1 Louisiana
Graves v. Bulkley 25 Kan. 249 1881 1 Kansas
Chapman v. Phœnix National Bank 85 N.Y. 437 1881 1 New York
Dryden v. Stephens 19 W. Va. 1 1881 1 West Virginia
Nevin v. Gillespie 56 Md. 320 1881 1 Maryland
Jeffers v. Cook 58 Cal. 147 1881 1 California
Swan v. Smith 58 Miss. 875 1881 1 Mississippi