Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
Blassingame v. Rose 34 Ga. 418 1866 0 appeal for property debt Georgia
Buel v. Pumphrey 2 Md. 261 1852 0 Maryland
Elvira, a Slave 57 Va. 561 1865 0 Attempted Murder SC of Appeals VA
Upshaw v. Upshaw 12 Va. 381 1808 0 Wills & Estate SC of Appeals VA
Tom v. Daily 4 Ohio 336 1829 0 Ohio
Weaver v. Yeatmans 15 Ala. 539 1849 0 Right of Property Alabama
Gunn v. Janes 40 Ga. 175 1869 0 Slave contact dispute Georgia
Waters v. Dashiell 1 Md. 455 1851 0 Maryland
Hamilton v. Rogers 8 Md. 301 1855 0 Maryland
Nash v. Smallwood 6 Md. 394 1854 0 Maryland
Jerry v. Townshend 9 Md. 145 1856 0 Maryland
Thomason v. Dill 30 Ala. 444 1857 0 Conflciting Contracts to Borrow Enslaved Persons Alabama
Townshend v. Matthews 10 Md. 251 1856 0 Maryland
Rawlings v. Adams 7 Md. 26 1854 0 Maryland
Scaggs v. Baltimore & Washington Rail Road 10 Md. 268 1856 0 Maryland
McChesney v. Bruce 1 Md. 344 1851 0 Maryland
People ex rel. Hedgman v. Board of Registration 26 Mich. 51 1872 0 Michigan
Bank of the United States v. Patton 6 Miss. 200 1840 0 Levy on slaves dispute Mississippi
Birney v. State 8 Ohio 230 1837 0 Indictment for harboring slave Ohio
Yeates v. Pryor 11 Ark. 58 1850 0 Contract dispute Arkansas