Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type ▲ Jurisdiction
State ex rel. Doullut v. Judge of the Sixth District Court 29 La. Ann. 869 1877 1 Louisiana
State ex rel. Buckley v. Hampton 23 N.C. 318 1840 0 North Carolina
Freeman v. Robinson 7 Ind. 321 1855 1 Indiana
Nelson v. Goree'r Adm'r 34 Ala. 565 1859 0 Alabama
Nixon v. New Orleans Ry. & Light Co. 121 La. 447 1908 1 Louisiana
Mohr v. Langan 77 Mo. App. 481 1898 1 Missouri
Murnan v. Stewart Title Guaranty Co. 585 F. Supp. 2d 825 2008 1 United States
In re the Estate of Pulling 93 Mich. 274 1892 1 Michigan
Bradford's Heirs v. Clark 7 La. 147 1834 0 Louisiana
State v. Jarrott 23 N.C. 76 1840 0 North Carolina
Illinois & St. Louis Railroad & Coal Co. v. Cobb 94 Ill. 55 1879 1 Illinois
Morse v. Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. 117 Ky. 11 1903 1 Kentucky
Meyer v. King 72 Miss. 1 1894 1 Mississippi
Palmer v. McMaster 10 Mont. 390 1891 1 Montana
Armstrong Grocery Co. v. Banks 185 N.C. 149 1923 1 North Carolina
Mack v. South Bound R. R. 52 S.C. 323 1898 1 South Carolina
Pickens v. South Carolina & Georgia R. R. 54 S.C. 498 1899 1 South Carolina
Miles v. Postal Tel. Cable Co. 55 S.C. 403 1899 1 South Carolina
International & Great Northern Railroad v. Addison 100 Tex. 241 1906 1 Texas
Ames v. Dorset Marble Co. 64 Vt. 10 1891 1 Vermont