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 October 2025.
Featured Cases
Equal Ground Education Fund v. Byrd; Vaccari v. Byrd; Common Cause v. DeSantis
Consolidated actions challenging Florida’s congressional map as violating the state's Fair Districts Amendment. The map remains in place after a trial court denied a temporary injunction
NAACP v. Tennessee
Tennessee lower court dismissed challenge to the state's mid-decade congressional redistricting, which claimed the legislature did not have authority to alter state laws to allow the redistrictring because those alterations were not specifically included in the governor's proclamation calling the session
McDougle v. Scott
Virginia Supreme Court, in a split decision, nullified a constitutional amendment approved by voters that would have allowed the state's congressional districts to be redrawn, finding the legislative process used for the amendment violated the state constitution
NAACP v. Tennessee
Tennessee lower court dismissed challenge to the state's mid-decade congressional redistricting, which claimed the legislature did not have authority to alter state laws to allow the redistrictring because those alterations were not specifically included in the governor's proclamation calling the session
Equal Ground Education Fund v. Byrd; Vaccari v. Byrd; Common Cause v. DeSantis
Consolidated actions challenging Florida’s congressional map as violating the state's Fair Districts Amendment. The map remains in place after a trial court denied a temporary injunction
NAACP v. Kehoe
Missouri Supreme Court affirmed the governor acted within his constitutional authority when he convened an extraordinary legislative session for redistricting
Loe v. Kansas
Kansas trial court temporarily blocked state bans on the provision of puberty blockers or hormone therapy to minors for gender-affirming treatment
Butts v. Mace
South Carolina Supreme Court held that lawmakers may retroactively amend a statute after a judicial interpretation, overruling precedent that had found doing so violated separation of powers
Norris v. Independence County
Arkansas Supreme Court struck down a law that divested circuit courts of original jurisdiction over facial constitutional challenges to state laws and conferred that jurisdiction on the court of appeals
City of Henderson v. Armendarez
Nevada Supreme Court will consider whether a law requiring pretrial bail hearings to occur within 48 hours of arrest violates victims' rights or separation of powers
Moira Akers v. State
Maryland Supreme Court ruled that evidence a defendant considered an abortion during her pregnancy was inadmissible as proof she intended to kill her newborn
State v. Albaidhani
South Dakota Supreme Court held that officers who were shot at during a police chase qualify as crime victims for purposes of the state's Marsy's Law and are entitled to request that their names be shielded from public filings
