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 May 2025.
Featured Cases
Onondaga v. New York
New York Court of Appeals upheld law that would change many county and town elections to even years to align with state and federal contests, finding it does not violate state constitutional home rule or voting rights.
Center for Coalfield Justice v. Washington County Board of Elections
Pennsylvania Supreme Court held a county election board policy that provided no notice to voters whose mail-in ballots were disqualified for errors and gave the misimpression they could not vote by provisional ballot violated voters' procedural due process rights.
League of Women Voters of South Carolina v. Alexander
South Carolina Supreme Court held that partisan gerrymandering claims are nonjusticiable political questions, which state courts cannot review, under the state constitution.
Texas v. Bruck
New York trial court dismissed Texas's petition seeking to order county clerk to accept its filing intended to begin the process of enforcing that state's default judgment against a New York doctor, who allegedly sent abortion pills to a Texas woman.
In re Judge Jennifer Medley
Louisiana Supreme Court suspended district judge under state constitutional clause and judicial conduct code for activities during her election campaign — including knowingly false statements that her opponent was a "deadbeat dad" — disagreeing those statements were protected by the First Amendment.
State v. Hemion
Oregon Supreme Court will consider whether a trial court was within its authority to order a public defense provider to turn over caseload data related to its representation of indigent criminal defendants, in connection with a larger controversy over shortage of such counsel.
State v. Rogers
North Carolina Supreme Court held that state search and seizure clause is in lockstep with the Fourth Amendment in recognizing a "good faith" exception to the exclusionary rule
Onondaga v. New York
New York Court of Appeals upheld law that would change many county and town elections to even years to align with state and federal contests, finding it does not violate state constitutional home rule or voting rights.
Rutledge v. Clearway Energy Group LLC
Delaware Supreme Court will consider whether corporate law changes that remove the Chancery Court's ability to award equitable relief for transactions satisfying a "safe harbor" unconstitutionally divests that court of jurisdiction and whether retroactive application of the safe harbor violates plaintiffs' rights by eliminating claims that were already accrued or vested.
State v. Michael Sharpe
Connecticut Supreme Court held that neither the police’s collection of DNA from a discarded belt, nor the subsequent analysis of that DNA solely for purposes of identifying the defendant, violated his privacy rights
White v. Stitt
Oklahoma Supreme Court struck down law creating new business courts in the state’s two most populous counties
McVay v. Cockroft
Oklahoma Supreme Court will consider whether a law making it harder for citizen initiative petitions to qualify for the ballot violates citizens' state constitutional initative, free speech, and equal protection rights.
Committee for Public Counsel Services v. Middlesex and Suffolk County District Courts
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court will consider whether or when a court may order an increase in the statutory compensation rate for attorneys accepting representation of indigent criminal defendants, as a means of addressing a shortage of such counsel.
