Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction ▲
Farmers & Merchants Bank of Reedsville v. Kingwood National Bank 85 W. Va. 371 1920 1 West Virginia
Douglass Merchandise Co. v. Laird 37 W. Va. 687 1893 1 West Virginia
Hughes & Co. v. Hamilton 19 W. Va. 366 1882 1 West Virginia
Patton v. Merchants' Bank of Charleston 12 W. Va. 587 1878 1 West Virginia
Steele v. Harkness 9 W. Va. 13 1876 1 West Virginia
Moore v. Douglass 14 W. Va. 708 1879 1 West Virginia
Mahany v. Kephart 15 W. Va. 609 1879 1 West Virginia
Brown v. Brown 72 W. Va. 648 1913 1 West Virginia
Layne v. Ohio River R'd 35 W. Va. 438 1891 1 West Virginia
Cook v. Dorsey 38 W. Va. 196 1893 1 West Virginia
Gillespie v. Allen 37 W. Va. 675 1893 1 West Virginia
Fisher v. Poling 78 W. Va. 289 1916 1 West Virginia
State v. Haymond 84 W. Va. 292 1919 1 West Virginia
State ex rel. Spiker v. West Virginia Racing Commission 135 W. Va. 512 1951 1 West Virginia
Smith v. Smith 138 W. Va. 388 1953 1 West Virginia
Manypenny v. Graham 149 W. Va. 56 1964 1 West Virginia
Cobb v. Cobb 145 W. Va. 107 1960 1 West Virginia
Ramsburg v. Erb 16 W. Va. 777 1880 1 West Virginia
Thompson v. Thompson 5 W. Va. 190 1872 1 West Virginia
Stevens v. Carey 112 W. Va. 1 1932 1 West Virginia