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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
Fields v. Walker 23 Ala. 155 1853 0 Alabama
Adamson v. Adamson 9 Ark. 26 1848 0 Arkansas
Crow v. Boyd's Administrators 17 Ala. 51 1849 0 Alabama
Watkins v. Bailey 21 Ark. 274 1860 0 Arkansas
Carrier v. Hampton 33 N.C. 307 1850 0 North Carolina
Sheckell v. Jackson 64 Mass. 25 1852 0 Civil Massachusetts
The Wanderer 29 F. Cas. 150 1860 0 United States
Thwing v. Washington Insurance 76 Mass. 443 1858 0 Massachusetts
Inhabitants of Edgartown v. Inhabitants of Tisbury 64 Mass. 408 1852 0 Massachusetts
Commonwealth v. Taylor 44 Mass. 72 1841 0 Civil Massachusetts
Holden v. Eaton 25 Mass. 436 1829 0 Massachusetts
United States v. Smith 27 F. Cas. 1167 1820 0 United States
Richardson v. Noyes 2 Mass. 56 1806 0 Civil Massachusetts
Inhabitants of Salem v. Inhabitants of Hamilton 4 Mass. 676 1808 0 Massachusetts
United States v. Brockett 2 D.C. 441 1823 0 United States
United States v. Coulter 1 D.C. 203 1804 0 United States
United States v. Lindsay 1 D.C. 245 1805 0 United States
Jennings v. Corporation of Washington 5 D.C. 512 1838 0 United States
United States v. Davis 25 F. Cas. 775 1835 0 United States
United States v. Hill 1 D.C. 521 1808 0 United States