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In page Slavery at common law:

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It is unclear whether the effect of the case was to actually make slavery in England illegal, or rather generally to impose limits on the physical punishment on slaves.[citation needed] In none of subsequent common law cases prior to Somersett's case was Cartwright's case cited as authority for the proposition that slavery was unlawful.[citation needed] However, those disputes predominantly concerned disputes between slave merchants (the notable exception being Shanley v Harvey, as to which see below), for whom it would have been commercially unwise to plead that slavery was unlawful.[citation needed]