Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▼ Law Type Jurisdiction
Humphreys v. State 70 Ohio St. 67 1904 1 Ohio
Overton v. Hudson Executor of Hudson 2 Va. 172 1796 1 Virginia
Thurber v. Royal Insurance 15 Del. 251 1894 1 Delaware
Rhines v. Phelps 8 Ill. 455 1846 1 Illinois
Harper v. Harper 73 Ky. 447 1874 1 Kentucky
State v. President of the Commercial & Rail Road Bank of Vicksburg 20 Miss. 276 1849 1 Mississippi
Mendenhall v. Parish 53 N.C. 105 1860 1 North Carolina
State v. Raiford 13 N.C. 214 1829 1 North Carolina
Chapman v. Erie Railway Co. 55 N.Y. 579 1874 1 New York
Rebecca J. E. Townsend’s Executors v. Townsend 25 Ohio St. 477 1874 1 Ohio
Ironton Garage Co. v. McKee 20 Ohio N.P. (n.s.) 251 1917 1 Ohio
Ives v. McNicoll 59 Ohio St. 402 1899 1 Ohio
Benscoter Estate 63 Pa. D. & C. 543 1948 1 Pennsylvania
Miller v. Mitchell ex rel. You 8 S.C. Eq. 437 1831 1 South Carolina
Gage v. Epperson 39 Tenn. 669 1859 1 Tennessee
Ewing v. Cantrell 19 Tenn. 364 1838 1 Tennessee
Commonwealth v. Adcock 49 Va. 661 1851 1 Virginia
Redd v. Supervisors of Henry County 72 Va. 695 1879 1 Virginia
McCoy v. Sheriff of New Castle County 14 Del. 433 1886 1 Delaware
Riggs v. Johnson County 73 U.S. 166 1867 1 United States