Case Name Citation Year ▲ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Backhouse's Ex'x v. Selden 70 Va. 581 1877 1 Virginia
Merriman v. Cannovan 68 Tenn. 93 1877 1 Tennessee
Sanders v. State 2 Shan. Cas. 606 1877 1 Tennessee
Bierne v. Brown's Adm'r 10 W. Va. 748 1877 1 West Virginia
Graham v. Thayer 29 La. Ann. 75 1877 1 Louisiana
Zane v. Sawtell 11 W. Va. 43 1877 1 West Virginia
Wilson v. State 3 Tex. Ct. App. 63 1877 1 Texas
Ogle v. Adams 12 W. Va. 213 1877 1 West Virginia
Trafford v. Young 3 Tenn. Ch. R. 496 1877 1 Tennessee
Raymond v. State 54 Miss. 562 1877 1 Mississippi
Burbank v. Conrad 96 U.S. 291 1877 1 United States
Ross v. Crow 68 Tenn. 420 1877 1 Tennessee
Wyatt v. Thompson 10 W. Va. 645 1877 1 West Virginia
Trafford v. Austin 3 Tenn. Ch. R. 492 1877 1 Tennessee
Hyman, Moses & Co. v. Smith 10 W. Va. 298 1877 1 West Virginia
Morris' Admr. v. Peyton's Admr. 10 W. Va. 1 1877 1 West Virginia
Giddings v. Butler 47 Tex. 535 1877 1 Texas
Wood v. Bibbins 58 Ind. 392 1877 1 Indiana
Moorman v. Smoot 69 Va. 80 1877 1 Virginia
Ryerson v. Chapman 66 Me. 557 1877 1 Maine