State Case Database
Search State Court Report's database of significant state supreme court decisions and pending cases. Download decisions and briefs for cases that develop state constitutional law. This is a selected database and does not include every state supreme court case. See methodology and "How to Use the State Case Database" for more information.
This database is updated monthly, although individual cases may be updated more frequently. Last updated comprehensively with cases decided through June 2025.
Featured Cases
League of Women Voters of Utah v. Utah State Legislature (LWV 1)
Utah Supreme Court dismissed legislators' appeal from trial court ruling that struck the state's congressional map. Lower court said law the map was enacted under violated a fundamental right of voters to alter or reform their government — recognized by the Utah high court earlier in the case — by repealing a redistricting-reform initiative, and subsequently adopted plaintiffs' proposed alternative map
Commonwealth v. Council for Better Education; LaFontaine v. Council for Better Education
Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that a law providing for charter schools funds education outside the “system of common schools,” in violation of clauses requiring the legislature to establish such a system and voters to approve such funding
McDougle v. Nardo
Virginia Supreme Court permitted legislature's proposed amendment to redraw the state’s congressional map to proceed to a vote, while it considers appeal of trial court decision finding the legislative process unconstitutional
Williams v. Board of Elections of the State of New York
New York intermediate appellate court allowed the redrawing of a congressional district covering Staten Island and part of Brooklyn to proceed, removing a stay of a trial court decision ordering the map redrawn because it violated a 2014 amendment barring racial vote dilution
McDougle v. Nardo
Virginia Supreme Court permitted legislature's proposed amendment to redraw the state’s congressional map to proceed to a vote, while it considers appeal of trial court decision finding the legislative process unconstitutional
Rutledge v. Clearway Energy Group LLC
Delaware Supreme Court upheld corporate law changes that retroactively alter the standard of review and relief the Chancery Court may award for certain transactions involving controlling shareholders
Clarke v. Town of Newburgh
New York Court of Appeals held local government could not assert state or federal equal protection challenge to the vote dilution provision of the state's Voting Rights Act
State v. Roberts
Oregon Supreme Court held that state's failure to appoint counsel for an indigent criminal defendant for an extended time period violates the right to counsel and imposed a general rule for how long before dismissal without prejudice is required
Texas General Land Office v. SaveRGV; Cameron County v. SaveRGV; Paxton v. SaveRGV
Texas Supreme Court will consider whether statutes relied on by officials to close a public beach for SpaceX flight violate an amendment providing citizens with an "unrestricted right" to use public beaches
