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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▼ Law Type Jurisdiction
Beers v. Rhea 5 Tex. 349 1849 0 Texas
Batten v. Faulk 49 N.C. 233 1856 0 North Carolina
Allison v. Allison 56 N.C. 236 1857 0 North Carolina
State v. Cherry 33 N.C. 475 1850 0 North Carolina
Seevers v. Hamilton 6 Iowa 199 1858 0 Iowa
Daggs v. Frazer 6 F. Cas. 1112 1849 0 United States
Torrey v. Grant 18 Miss. 89 1848 0 Mississippi
Peirce v. Turner 1 D.C. 462 1808 0 United States
Commonwealth ex rel. Bell v. Greason 5 Serg. & Rawle 333 1819 0 Civil SC of PA.
Banks v. Banks 42 Tenn. 546 1865 0 Tennessee
William v. Van Zandt 3 D.C. 55 1826 0 United States
Sasser v. Jones 38 N.C. 19 1843 0 North Carolina
White v. White 40 Tenn. 404 1859 0 Tennessee
Holmes v. Bacon 28 Miss. 607 1855 0 Mississippi
Gober v. Gober 3 N.C. 170 1802 0 North Carolina
Simon v. State 5 Fla. 285 1853 0 Supreme Court of FL
Weaver v. Lapsley 42 Ala. 601 1868 0 Alabama
Green v. Creighton 18 Miss. 159 1848 0 Mississippi
Barret v. Gaston 1 Ill. 255 1828 0 Illinois
Moore v. Jacobs 4 D.C. 312 1833 0 United States