Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▼ Law Type Jurisdiction
Knapp v. Snyder 15 W. Va. 434 1879 1 West Virginia
Read v. Read 9 Va. 160 1804 1 Virginia
Schmidt v. Nunan 63 Cal. 371 1883 1 California
Inhabitants of Worcester v. Green 19 Mass. 425 1824 1 Massachusetts
M'Clintic v. Commonwealth 40 Va. 727 1842 1 Virginia
In re Will of Craven 169 N.C. 561 1915 1 North Carolina
Johnson v. Commonwealth 65 Va. 555 1873 1 Virginia
Markham's Adm'r v. Commonwealth 28 Va. 516 1830 1 Virginia
Douglass v. Dickson 45 S.C.L. 417 1858 1 South Carolina
Plant v. Donaldson 39 App. D.C. 162 1912 1 District of Columbia
Conrad v. Douglas 59 Minn. 498 1894 1 Minnesota
Britt v. Aylett 11 Ark. 475 1850 1 Arkansas
Inhabitants of Canton v. Inhabitants of Dorchester 62 Mass. 525 1851 1 Massachusetts
Leach v. Fowler's Devisees 22 Ark. 143 1860 1 Arkansas
Overshiner v. Wisehart 59 Ind. 135 1877 1 Indiana
Crymes v. State 52 Ga. App. 195 1935 1 Georgia
State Life Insurance v. Postal 43 Ind. App. 144 1908 1 Indiana
Greenup v. Crooks 50 Ind. 410 1874 1 Indiana
State v. Finney 141 Kan. 12 1935 1 Kansas
Keeling v. Hoyt 31 Neb. 453 1891 1 Nebraska