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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
Succession of Pierson 339 So. 2d 1337 1976 1 Louisiana
Morton v. Preston 18 Mich. 60 1869 1 Michigan
Schee v. McQuilken 59 Ind. 269 1877 1 Indiana
State v. Cox 281 N.C. 131 1972 1 North Carolina
State v. Alexander 18 N.C. App. 460 1973 1 North Carolina
Phelps v. Harris 61 Miss. 705 1884 1 Mississippi
Tate v. Bush 62 Miss. 145 1884 1 Mississippi
Hambrick v. Jones 64 Miss. 240 1886 1 Mississippi
Moore v. McKinley 246 Iowa 734 1955 1 Iowa
Price v. Ferguson 66 Miss. 404 1889 1 Mississippi
Huntington v. Allen 44 Miss. 654 1870 1 Mississippi
Merchants & Farmers Bank v. Calmes 82 Miss. 603 1903 1 Mississippi
Surget v. Boyd 57 Miss. 485 1879 1 Mississippi
Menken v. Gumbel 57 Miss. 756 1880 1 Mississippi
Summers v. Taylor 80 Ky. 429 1882 1 Kentucky
State v. Hemingway 69 Miss. 491 1891 1 Mississippi
Priest v. Brown 100 Cal. 626 1893 1 California
Reeves Grocery Co. v. Thompson 105 Miss. 729 1913 1 Mississippi
Murray v. Murray 358 So. 2d 723 1978 1 Mississippi
Conlin Estate 388 Pa. 483 1957 1 Pennsylvania