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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction ▲
Late Corp. of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints v. United States 136 U.S. 1 1890 1 United States
Dent v. Ferguson 132 U.S. 50 1889 1 United States
Boyd v. Nebraska ex rel. Thayer 143 U.S. 135 1892 1 United States
Holmes v. Goldsmith 147 U.S. 150 1893 1 United States
City of Minneapolis v. Reum 56 F. 576 1893 1 United States
Sears v. Eastburn 51 U.S. 187 1850 1 United States
New Orleans v. Steamship Co. 87 U.S. 387 1874 1 United States
Mills v. Green 67 F. 818 1895 1 United States
Mansfield, Coldwater & Lake Michigan Railway Co. v. Swan 111 U.S. 379 1884 1 United States
Elk v. Wilkins 112 U.S. 94 1884 1 United States
Plessy v. Ferguson 163 U.S. 537 1896 1 United States
United States v. Wong Kim Ark 169 U.S. 649 1898 1 United States
McClean v. Miller 15 F. Cas. 1267 1825 1 United States
Ex parte Ortiz 100 F. 955 1900 1 United States
Goetze v. United States 103 F. 72 1900 1 United States
United States v. Clark 25 F. Cas. 441 1825 1 United States
Littell v. Erie R. Co. 105 F. 539 1900 1 United States
De Lima v. Bidwell 182 U.S. 1 1901 1 United States
Downes v. Bidwell 182 U.S. 244 1901 1 United States
Mayer v. United States 38 Ct. Cl. 553 1903 1 United States