Case Name Citation Year ▲ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Shoemaker v. Coats 218 N.C. 251 1940 1 North Carolina
Succession of Galiano 195 So. 377 1940 1 Louisiana
General Motors Acceptance Corp. v. Nuss 195 La. 209 1940 1 Louisiana
General Motors Acceptance Corp. v. Nuss 196 So. 323 1940 1 Louisiana
Gedart v. Ejdrygiewicz 305 Mass. 224 1940 1 Massachusetts
In re Talbot Canning Corp. 35 F. Supp. 680 1940 1 United States
Buxton v. Acadian Production Corp. 35 F. Supp. 543 1940 1 United States
Carswell v. Creswell 217 N.C. 40 1940 1 North Carolina
Succession of Rabb 193 So. 268 1940 1 Louisiana
Ascension Nat. Farm Loan Ass'n v. Whitney Nat. Bank of New Orleans 198 So. 409 1940 1 Louisiana
Deckert v. Independence Shares Corp. 311 U.S. 282 1940 1 United States
Chitwood v. Collins 122 W. Va. 267 1940 1 West Virginia
Taunton v. Dobbs 240 Ala. 287 1940 1 Alabama
State v. Peyton 194 So. 715 1940 1 Louisiana
In re Richards & Holloway, Inc. 35 F. Supp. 51 1940 1 United States
State v. Peyton 194 La. 681 1940 1 Louisiana
Spears v. St. Charles Dairy, Inc. 194 So. 738 1940 1 Louisiana
Miller v. Greenwood 218 N.C. 146 1940 1 North Carolina
State v. White 195 La. 1028 1940 1 Louisiana
Hamby v. Northcut 25 Tenn. App. 11 1940 1 Tennessee