Case Name Citation Year ▲ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Whitehead's Adm'r v. Coleman's Ex'ors 72 Va. 784 1879 1 Virginia
Tenney v. Foote 4 Ill. App. 594 1879 1 Illinois
La Bau v. Vanderbilt 3 Redf. 384 1879 1 New York
Smith & Atkinson v. Knight 14 W. Va. 749 1879 1 West Virginia
Brown v. Martin 15 W. Va. 1 1879 1 West Virginia
Foulke v. Bond 41 N.J.L. 527 1879 1 New Jersey
H. Newmark & Co. v. Chapman 53 Cal. 557 1879 1 California
Daniels v. Moses 12 S.C. 130 1879 1 South Carolina
Rawdon v. Dodge 40 Mich. 697 1879 1 Michigan
Tuxbury v. French 41 Mich. 7 1879 1 Michigan
Commonwealth v. Holmes 127 Mass. 424 1879 1 Massachusetts
Sumwalt v. Sumwalt 52 Md. 338 1879 1 Maryland
Camden v. Harris 15 W. Va. 554 1879 1 West Virginia
Ford v. Hennessy 70 Mo. 580 1879 1 Missouri
Lawless v. State 72 Tenn. 173 1879 1 Tennessee
Halsted v. State 41 N.J.L. 552 1879 1 New Jersey
B. & O. R. R. v. Bitner 15 W. Va. 455 1879 1 West Virginia
Hall v. State 71 Tenn. 552 1879 1 Tennessee
Shinn v. Commonwealth 73 Va. 899 1879 1 Virginia
Mercer’s Adm’r v. Mackin 77 Ky. 434 1879 1 Kentucky