Case Name Citation Year ▲ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Tinsley v. Jones 54 Va. 289 1856 1 Virginia
Carroll v. Hancock 48 N.C. 471 1856 0 North Carolina
Marsh v. Mississippi 30 Miss. 627 1856 1 Mississippi
Oden v. Windley 55 N.C. 440 1856 0 North Carolina
Ritchie v. Dorland 6 Cal. 33 1856 1 California
Williams v. Holmes 9 Md. 281 1856 1 Maryland
Boyd v. McCann 10 Md. 118 1856 1 Maryland
Heskett v. Borden Mining Co. 10 Md. 179 1856 1 Maryland
Miller v. Dorsey 9 Md. 317 1856 1 Maryland
Berry v. Griffin 10 Md. 27 1856 1 Maryland
Williams v. Barnes 28 Ala. 613 1856 1 Alabama
Derby v. Derby 4 R.I. 414 1856 1 Rhode Island
Goode v. Goode 22 Mo. 518 1856 1 Missouri
Stratton v. Ham 8 Ind. 84 1856 1 Indiana
Commonwealth v. Williams 72 Mass. 1 1856 1 Massachusetts
Gough v. Pratt 9 Md. 526 1856 1 Maryland
Pratt v. Philbrook 41 Me. 132 1856 1 Maine
McFarland v. Hall 17 Tex. 676 1856 1 Texas
Ex parte Greene 29 Ala. 52 1856 1 Alabama
Domestic & Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States v. Reynold's Executrices 9 Md. 341 1856 1 Maryland