Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction ▲
Watson v. Dickens 20 Miss. 608 1849 0 Mississippi
Killcrease v. Killcrease 8 Miss. 311 1843 0 Mississippi
Hall v. Browder's Administrators 5 Miss. 224 1839 0 Mississippi
Carmichael v. Trustees of School Lands 4 Miss. 84 1838 0 Mississippi
Walker v. McDowell 12 Miss. 118 1845 0 Mississippi
Hamilton v. Lockhart 41 Miss. 460 1867 0 Mississippi
Heard v. State 59 Miss. 545 1882 1 Mississippi
Brooks v. Black 68 Miss. 161 1890 1 Mississippi
Hester v. Thomson 58 Miss. 108 1880 1 Mississippi
Burton v. John Hancock Mut. Life Ins. 171 Miss. 596 1934 1 Mississippi
Ford v. State 75 Miss. 101 1897 1 Mississippi
Bennett v. State 100 Miss. 684 1911 1 Mississippi
Wesley v. State 2 Mor. St. Cas. 1259 1872 1 Mississippi
Montgomery v. Galbraith 19 Miss. 555 1848 1 Mississippi
Louisville, New Orleans & Texas Railway Co. v. Williams 69 Miss. 631 1892 1 Mississippi
Whitley v. State 78 Miss. 255 1900 1 Mississippi
Mulverhill v. Vicksburg Railway, Power & Manufacturing Co. 88 Miss. 689 1906 1 Mississippi
Wilkinson v. Davis’s Administrator 1 Freem. Ch. 53 1844 1 Mississippi
New Orleans, Jackson, & Great Northern Railroad v. Statham 42 Miss. 607 1869 1 Mississippi
Sadler v. Mobile Life Insurance 60 Miss. 391 1882 1 Mississippi