Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▼ Law Type Jurisdiction
State ex rel. Briggs v. Smith 83 N.C. 306 1880 1 North Carolina
Dale v. White 33 Conn. 294 1866 1 Connecticut
Gourdin v. Shrewsbury 11 S.C. 1 1878 1 South Carolina
Lunt v. Lunt 108 Ill. 307 1883 1 Illinois
Patterson v. Southern Railway Co. 214 N.C. 38 1938 1 North Carolina
Foil v. Newsome 138 N.C. 115 1905 1 North Carolina
Thrasher v. Humphreys 110 Miss. 735 1916 1 Mississippi
Mutual Life Insurance v. Spohn 172 Ky. 90 1916 1 Kentucky
Casey v. Robards 60 N.C. 38 1864 1 North Carolina
Wood v. Reeves 58 N.C. 271 1859 1 North Carolina
Whitley v. Foy 59 N.C. 34 1860 1 North Carolina
Davis v. Fox 69 N.C. 435 1873 1 North Carolina
State ex rel. Allison v. Robinson 78 N.C. 222 1878 1 North Carolina
Black v. Justice 86 N.C. 504 1882 1 North Carolina
Sanger v. Warren 91 Tex. 472 1898 1 Texas
McLean v. Leitch 152 N.C. 266 1910 1 North Carolina
Hottal v. Ekart 86 S.C. 341 1910 1 South Carolina
Brown v. Cowper 247 N.C. 1 1957 1 North Carolina
Moore v. Ragland 74 N.C. 343 1876 1 North Carolina
Bynum v. J. F. Miller & Co. 86 N.C. 559 1882 1 North Carolina