Case Name Citation Year ▲ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Baird v. Lent 8 Watts 422 1839 1 Pennsylvania
Tide Water Canal Co. v. Archer 9 G. & J. 479 1839 1 Maryland
Grosvenor v. Farmers & Mechanics Bank 13 Conn. 104 1839 1 Connecticut
Mims v. Mims 20 Tenn. 425 1839 1 Tennessee
Trustees of McIntire Poor School v. Zanesville Canal & Manufacturing Co. 9 Ohio 203 1839 1 Ohio
Commonwealth v. Woodson 36 Va. 234 1839 1 Virginia
Garland v. Agee's Adm'r 34 Va. 362 1839 1 Virginia
Jones v. Read 20 Tenn. 335 1839 1 Tennessee
Taylor v. Cooper 37 Va. 317 1839 1 Virginia
Den on dem. Huggins v. Ketchum 20 N.C. 414 1839 1 North Carolina
Towell v. Gatewood 3 Ill. 22 1839 1 Illinois
Davison v. Wolf 9 Ohio 73 1839 1 Ohio
Platt v. Howland 37 Va. 507 1839 1 Virginia
Burton v. Smith 38 U.S. 464 1839 1 United States
Bassett v. Johnson 2 N.J. Eq. 154 1839 1 New Jersey
Ware v. Stephenson 37 Va. 155 1839 1 Virginia
Bourne v. State 8 Port. 458 1839 1 Alabama
Lyle v. Higginbotham 37 Va. 63 1839 1 Virginia
Forbes & Freeman v. Davison 11 Vt. 660 1839 1 Vermont
Maples ex rel. Broughton v. Maples 14 S.C. Eq. 300 1839 1 South Carolina