Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Gibson v. Governor ex rel. Stewart's Adm'r 38 Va. 600 1841 1 Virginia
Mears v. Morrison 1 Ill. 223 1827 0 Illinois
Slaughter v. Commonwealth 38 Va. 681 1841 1 Virginia
Lewis v. Arnold 54 Va. 454 1856 1 Virginia
Scott v. State 878 So. 2d 933 2004 1 Mississippi
Sinclair, Louis, Siegel, Heath, Nussbaum & Zavertnik, P.A. v. Baucom 428 So. 2d 1383 1983 1 Florida
Murray v. Laird 446 So. 2d 575 1984 1 Mississippi
Powers v. Scharling 64 Kan. 339 1902 1 Kansas
Polomski v. Mayor of Baltimore 344 Md. 70 1996 1 Maryland
Gunn v. Janes 40 Ga. 175 1869 0 Slave contact dispute Georgia
Harrison-Solomon v. State 442 Md. 254 2015 1 statutory interp Maryland
Office of Pub. Def. v. State 413 Md. 411 2010 1 evidence Maryland
Beers v. McConnell 21 N.J. 50 1956 1 New Jersey
Haynes v. Cumberland Builders, Inc. 546 S.W.2d 228 1976 1 Tennessee
Pullen v. Hopkins 69 Tenn. 741 1878 1 Tennessee
Creager v. State 952 S.W.2d 852 1997 1 Texas
Oursbourn v. State 259 S.W.3d 159 2008 1 Texas
Buckles v. Kennedy Coal Corp. 134 Va. 1 1922 1 Virginia
Newby v. Enron Corp. 610 F. Supp. 2d 600 2009 1 United States
ODonnell v. Harris County 251 F. Supp. 3d 1052 2017 1 United States