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
Johnson v. Wyoming
Wyoming Supreme Court struck down the state's abortion and medication abortion bans for violating a 2012 amendment that granted adults the right to make their own health care decisions
League of Women Voters of Utah v. Utah State Legislature (LWV 1)
Utah Supreme Court sent partisan gerrymandering case back to lower court to consider whether the legislature violated voters' fundamental right to "reform or alter" their government when it overturned redistricting reforms passed by initiative. Lower court found legislators violated that right and struck the current congressional map, adopting an alternative proposed by the plaintiffs
Jackson v. Florida
Florida Supreme Court upheld a 2023 law that permits eligible defendants to be sentenced to death on the recommendation of only 8 of 12 jurors
In Re: Judge Mark B. Cohen
Pennsylvania Supreme Court affirmed suspension of sitting judge who posted partisan comments on social media, holding new balancing test applied to his speech
Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust Fund v. Stitt
Oklahoma Supreme Court held that a law providing that directors of a trust overseeing allocation of state funds may be removed at will violated a constitutional amendment providing the directors shall serve a specific term
Nicholson v. State
Missouri Supreme Court held that addition of a provision allowing the attorney general to immediately appeal preliminary injunctions against the state during the enactment of a 2025 statute, altered the bill's original purpose to modify judicial review of ballot measure language
Franklin v. Martinez
New Mexico Supreme Court declined to hold incarcerated people have a protected property interest in acquiring property through the corrections agency's inmate property policy, under inherent rights and due process clauses
Degenfelder v. Wyoming Educational Association; Leck v. Wyoming Educational Association
Wyoming Supreme Court will consider the state constitutionality of the state's school-choice program; a lower court preliminarily blocked the program
EFG America v. Arizona Corporation Commission
Arizona Supreme Court will consider whether trying enforcement actions brought by the state’s securities regulator in juryless administrative hearings violates an enforcement target’s right to a jury trial
Rabiebna v. Higher Educational Aids Board
Wisconsin Supreme Court will consider whether a program that offers college retention scholarships to students from certain racial and national-origin groups violates federal and state equal protection
Montana Conservation Voters v. Jacobsen
Montana Supreme Court will consider the justiciability and merits of a partisan gerrymandering challenge to the legislature's 2023 redrawing of the electoral districts for a state utilities and transportation regulator
Terry Hubbard v. State
Florida Supreme Court will consider whether a statewide prosecution office, created by an amendment limiting its jurisdiction to crimes occurring in or affecting multiple judicial circuits, may prosecute a person accused of voting while ineligible
In re Kowalczyk
California Supreme Court will consider whether and how each of two clauses governs a judge's decision to deny bail and whether a court may set bail above an arrestee's ability to pay, causing a de facto denial
