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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
Cerro Gordo County v. Boone County 152 Iowa 692 1911 1 Iowa
Caparell v. Goodbody 132 N.J. Eq. 559 1942 1 New Jersey
People ex rel. Woodbury v. Hendrick 215 N.Y. 339 1915 1 New York
People ex rel. Woodbury v. Hendrick 33 N.Y. Crim. 330 1915 1 New York
Scarborough v. Scarborough 134 N.J. Eq. 201 1943 1 New Jersey
Bottomley v. Bottomley 134 N.J. Eq. 279 1944 1 New Jersey
Devries v. White 36 N.J. Super. 29 1955 1 New Jersey
Felstiner v. Lyons 36 N.J. Super. 407 1955 1 New Jersey
Fidelity Union Trust Co. v. Robert 36 N.J. 561 1962 1 New Jersey
In re Proving the Will of Cunningham 206 N.Y. 601 1912 1 New York
Teasdale v. Harrison 16 N.J. Super. 335 1951 1 New Jersey
First Camden National Bank & Trust Co. v. Wilentz 129 N.J. Eq. 333 1941 1 New Jersey
Drake v. Bell 55 N.Y.S. 945 1899 1 New York
McMillan v. Greer 85 Cal. App. 558 1927 1 California
Smith v. Winder 98 Cal. App. 2d 78 1950 1 California
Stonestreet v. Southern Oil Co. 226 N.C. 261 1946 1 North Carolina
Kitchen v. Herring 42 N.C. 190 1851 1 North Carolina
Testa v. Katt 330 U.S. 386 1947 1 United States
Cox Broadcasting Corp. v. Cohn 420 U.S. 469 1975 1 United States
Merkle v. Robinson 737 So. 2d 540 1999 1 Florida