Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type ▼ Jurisdiction
Estate of Self 591 S.W.2d 338 1979 1 Texas
County School Board v. Town of Herndon 194 Va. 810 1953 1 Virginia
Ware v. Cary 6 Va. 263 1800 1 Virginia
Cohen v. Parish 105 Ga. 339 1898 1 Georgia
Ragsdale v. Hagy 50 Va. 409 1852 1 Virginia
Wardsworth v. Miller 45 Va. 99 1847 1 Virginia
Rucker v. Harrison 20 Va. 181 1818 1 Virginia
Harrison's Administrator v. Raines's Administratrix 19 Va. 456 1818 1 Virginia
Stone v. Wilson 51 Va. 529 1853 1 Virginia
James v. Gibbs 1 Va. (Patt. & Heath) 277 1855 1 Virginia
Birmingham Water Works Co. v. Hume 121 Ala. 168 1898 1 Alabama
Goolsby v. St. John 66 Va. 146 1874 1 Virginia
Jenkins’ Executor v. Jenkins 33 Ala. 731 1859 1 Alabama
Fleming v. Yost 137 Ind. 95 1894 1 Indiana
Brooks v. Mitchell 163 Md. 1 1932 1 Maryland
George v. Goldsby 23 Ala. 326 1853 1 Alabama
Sherrard v. Carlisle 1 Va. (Patt. & Heath) 12 1855 1 Virginia
Hicks v. State 97 Fla. 199 1929 1 Florida
Patton v. Moore 16 W. Va. 428 1880 1 West Virginia
United States v. Philip Morris USA, Inc. 449 F. Supp. 2d 1 2006 1 United States