Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type ▲ Jurisdiction
Trumbull v. Gibbons 22 N.J.L. 117 1849 New Jersey
Freeman v. Cook 41 N.C. 373 1849 0 North Carolina
Rittenhouse v. Wilmington Street-Railway Co. 120 N.C. 544 1897 1 North Carolina
Tayloe v. Graves 1 Jefferson 40 1736 0 General Ct. of VA
Governor ex rel. Oxley v. Freeman 15 N.C. 472 1834 0 North Carolina
Pleasants v. Raleigh & Augusta Air Line Railroad 121 N.C. 492 1897 1 North Carolina
Hall v. Hall 11 Tex. 526 1854 0 Texas
Hancock v. Norfolk & Western Railway Co. 124 N.C. 222 1899 1 North Carolina
J. D. Biggs & Co. v. Perkins 75 N.C. 397 1876 1 North Carolina
Hutto v. Thornton 44 Miss. 166 1870 1 Mississippi
Brown v. Carraway 47 Miss. 668 1873 1 Mississippi
Lanier v. Booth 50 Miss. 410 1874 1 Mississippi
Phillippi v. Thompson 8 Or. 428 1880 1 Oregon
Shaw v. Smithes 167 Ill. 269 1897 1 Illinois
Illinois Steel Co. v. Budzisz 106 Wis. 499 1900 1 Wisconsin
Scottish American Mortgage Co. v. Butler 99 Miss. 56 1910 1 Mississippi
Neal v. Newburger Co. 154 Miss. 691 1929 1 Mississippi
Barron v. Federal Land Bank of New Orleans 182 Miss. 50 1938 1 Mississippi
Ball v. Martin 217 Miss. 221 1953 1 Mississippi
Newman v. Smith 226 Miss. 465 1956 1 Mississippi