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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction ▼
Birdsall v. Russell 24 N.Y. Super. Ct. 538 1863 1 New York
Birdsall v. Russell 29 N.Y. 220 1864 1 New York
Seabrook v. Hecker 25 N.Y. Super. Ct. 291 1864 1 New York
McGoldrick v. Willits 52 N.Y. 612 1873 1 New York
Richard v. Wellington 66 N.Y. 308 1876 1 New York
Trenton Banking Co. v. Duncan 86 N.Y. 221 1881 1 New York
Waterbury v. Tucker & Carter Cordage Co. 152 N.Y. 610 1897 1 New York
Taylor v. Tillotson 16 Wend. 494 1836 1 New York
Emerson v. Associated Gas & Electric Co. 148 Misc. 636 1933 1 New York
Curtis v. Jones 1 How. App. Cas. 137 1847 1 New York
People v. McLeod 1 Hill & Den. 377 1841 1 New York
People v. McLeod 25 Wend. 481 1841 1 New York
Supervisors of Onondaga v. Briggs 2 Denio 26 1846 1 New York
Erickson v. Smith 2 Abb. Ct. App. 64 1869 1 New York
Erickson v. Smith 38 How. Pr. 454 1869 1 New York
Dewey v. Moyer 16 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 473 1877 1 New York
Dewey v. Moyer 72 N.Y. 70 1878 1 New York
People ex rel. Matochik v. Baker 306 N.Y. 32 1953 1 New York
Le Roy v. Mayor of New-York 20 Johns. 430 1823 1 New York
Overseers of the Poor v. Overseers of the Poor 2 Cow. 537 1824 1 New York