Case Name Citation Year ▲ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Burrus v. Burrus 56 Miss. 92 1878 1 Mississippi
Levy, Simon & Co. v. Brown 56 Miss. 83 1878 1 Mississippi
Townsend v. Ratcliff 50 Tex. 148 1878 1 Texas
Ross v. Hawthorne 55 Miss. 551 1878 1 Mississippi
Taylor v. Murphy 50 Tex. 291 1878 1 Texas
State v. Patterson 78 N.C. 470 1878 1 North Carolina
Kuykendall v. Marx & Kempner 1 White & W. 364 1878 1 Texas
Cowan v. Williams 49 Tex. 380 1878 1 Texas
Houston & Texas Central Railroad v. A. G. Graves & Co. 50 Tex. 181 1878 1 Texas
Tingle & Isham v. Brison 14 W. Va. 295 1878 1 West Virginia
Harrell v. Mitchell 61 Ala. 270 1878 1 Alabama
Snow v. Nash 50 Tex. 216 1878 1 Texas
Airhart v. Massieu 98 U.S. 491 1878 1 United States
Thomas v. Williams 50 Tex. 269 1878 1 Texas
Winchester v. United States 14 Ct. Cl. 13 1878 1 United States
New v. Nicole 73 N.Y. 127 1878 1 New York
De Leon v. Manuel Trevino & Bro. 49 Tex. 88 1878 1 Texas
Hawkins v. Cunningham 67 Mo. 415 1878 1 Missouri
Rudolf v. Winters 7 Neb. 125 1878 1 Nebraska
State v. England 78 N.C. 552 1878 1 North Carolina