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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction ▲
Scaife v. Western North Carolina Land Co. 90 F. 238 1898 1 United States
Hall's Deposition 11 F. Cas. 204 1843 1 United States
Lippincott v. Mitchell 94 U.S. 767 1876 1 United States
Taylor v. Doe ex dem. Miller 54 U.S. 287 1851 1 United States
Hunter v. Marlboro 12 F. Cas. 957 1846 1 United States
Bentley v. Phelps 3 F. Cas. 244 1847 1 United States
Klopfer v. North Carolina 386 U.S. 213 1967 1 United States
Smythe v. Henry 41 F. 705 1890 1 United States
In re National Telephone Mfg. Co. 230 F. 785 1916 1 United States
Glenn v. Sumner 132 U.S. 152 1889 1 United States
United States v. Devereux 90 F. 182 1898 1 United States
Burton v. Le Roy 4 F. Cas. 867 1879 1 United States
Bishop v. Bishop 257 F.2d 495 1958 1 United States
Leak v. Isaacson 15 F. Cas. 102 1847 1 United States
United States v. Spector 102 F. Supp. 75 1951 1 United States
United States v. Schneiderman 102 F. Supp. 52 1951 1 United States
Guenther v. Dennis-Simmons Lumber Co. 246 F. 521 1917 1 United States
Matthews v. Murchison 17 F. 760 1883 1 United States
In re King 46 F. 905 1891 1 United States
Wooldridge v. United States 4 Alaska Fed. 485 1916 1 United States