Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type ▲ Jurisdiction
Birney v. State 8 Ohio 230 1837 Ohio
Price v. Slaughter 1 Cin. Sup. Ct. Rep. 429 1871 Ohio
Anderson v. Poindexter 6 Ohio St. 622 1856 Ohio
Burkhartv. Jennings 2 W. Va. 242 1867 West Virginia
Mathews v. Wade 2 W. Va. 464 1868 West Virginia
Morrow's adm'r v. Bailey 2 W. Va. 326 1867 West Virginia
Sanaker v. Cushwa 3 W. Va. 29 1868 West Virginia
Anderson v. Millikin 9 Ohio St. 568 1859 Ohio
Parker v. Clarkson 4 W. Va. 407 1870 West Virginia
Rutter v. Sullivan 25 W. Va. 427 1885 1 West Virginia
Chesapeake & Ohio R. R. v. Bradford 6 W. Va. 220 1873 West Virginia
Thompson v. Updegraff 3 W. Va. 629 1869 West Virginia
Boner v. Boner 6 W. Va. 377 1873 West Virginia
Williams v. Buster 5 W. Va. 342 1872 West Virginia
Meehan v. Newton No. 2011-UP-325, 2011 WL 11734950, at *1 (S.C. Ct. App. June 27, 2011) 2011 2 South Carolina
Graham v. Graham 4 W. Va. 320 1870 West Virginia
Carpenter v. Miller's Ex'rs 3 W. Va. 174 1869 West Virginia
Matthews v. Dunbar 3 W. Va. 138 1869 West Virginia
Hollingsworth & Co. v. Brooks 7 W. Va. 559 1874 West Virginia
Richardson v. Beebee 118 Cal. App. 2d 851 1953 California