Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▼ Law Type Jurisdiction
Paine v. Tutwiler 68 Va. 440 1876 1 Virginia
Harman v. Oberdorfer 74 Va. 497 1880 1 Virginia
Lyle v. Higginbotham 37 Va. 63 1839 1 Virginia
Burchard v. Wright 38 Va. 463 1840 1 Virginia
Northwestern Bank v. Nelson 42 Va. 109 1844 1 Virginia
Johnson v. Gibbons 68 Va. 632 1876 1 Virginia
Ewing v. Ewing 29 Va. 337 1830 1 Virginia
Love v. Dedon 239 La. 109 1960 1 Louisiana
Elam v. Keen 31 Va. 333 1833 1 Virginia
Love v. Dedon 118 So. 2d 122 1960 1 Louisiana
Oakland Home Insurance v. Bank of Commerce 47 Neb. 717 1896 1 Nebraska
Hunter v. Sandel 181 La. 584 1935 1 Louisiana
Hunter v. Sandel 160 So. 87 1935 1 Louisiana
Steptoe v. Read 60 Va. 1 1868 1 Virginia
State v. Romano 37 La. Ann. 98 1885 1 Louisiana
Jennings-Heywood Oil Syndicate v. Home Oil & Development Co. 113 La. 383 1904 1 Louisiana
Stone's Ex'or v. Nicholson 68 Va. 1 1876 1 Virginia
Brown v. Brown's Adm'r 72 Va. 502 1879 1 Virginia
Taliaferro v. Day 82 Va. 79 1886 1 Virginia
Robertson v. Gillenwaters 85 Va. 116 1888 1 Virginia