Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction ▲
Purnell v. Raleigh & Gaston Railroad 122 N.C. 832 1898 1 North Carolina
State v. Murray 139 N.C. 540 1905 1 North Carolina
Sherner v. Spear 92 N.C. 148 1885 1 North Carolina
Ashe v. Pettiford 177 N.C. 132 1919 1 North Carolina
York v. Merritt 80 N.C. 285 1879 1 North Carolina
Wilson v. Inter-Ocean Casualty Co. 210 N.C. 585 1936 1 North Carolina
Sherrod v. Any Child or Children Hereafter Born to Watson N. Sherrod, Jr. 65 N.C. App. 252 1983 1 North Carolina
Johnson v. North Carolina Dep't of Cultural Res. 223 N.C. App. 47 2012 1 North Carolina
State v. Jackson 308 N.C. 549 1983 1 North Carolina
Smith v. City of Newbern 70 N.C. 14 1874 1 North Carolina
Moffitt v. City of Asheville 103 N.C. 237 1889 1 North Carolina
Whitacre P'ship v. Biosignia, Inc. 358 N.C. 1 2004 1 North Carolina
Brown Bros. Harriman Trust Co. v. Benson 202 N.C. App. 283 2010 1 North Carolina
Street v. Andrews 115 N.C. 417 1894 1 North Carolina
In re Accutane Litig. 233 N.C. App. 319 2014 1 North Carolina
Riggs v. Burns 220 N.C. App. 416, 725 S.E.2d 472 (2012) 2012 1 North Carolina
Hayes v. Town of Fairmont 130 N.C. App. 125 1998 1 North Carolina
State v. Small 301 N.C. 407 1980 1 North Carolina
Scales v. City of Winston-Salem 189 N.C. 469 1925 1 North Carolina
Fortune v. First Union Nat. Bank 87 N.C. App. 1, 8–9, 359 S.E.2d 801, 806 (1987) 1987 1 North Carolina