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 February 2025.
Featured Cases
LeMieux v. Evers
The Wisconsin Supreme Court held, in a divided decision, that the governor did not exceed his partial veto authority under the state constitution when he altered digits, words, and punctuation in a budget bill to extend a school funding increase from 2 to 402 years.
Griffin v. State Board of Elections
A candidate for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court, who lost by over 700 votes, claims that the state board of elections followed an incorrect process for registering voters and seeks in invalidate more than 60,000 votes.
People v. Taylor; People v. Czarnecki
Michigan Supreme Court held that mandatory life-without-parole sentences violate the state constitution’s protection against “cruel or unusual” punishment for anyone under age 21 at the time of the offense. The decision extends the court’s 2022 ruling in People v. Parks that such sentences are unconstitutional for those 18 or under.
Commonwealth v. Jones-Williams
Dissent would have held that there is a reasonable expectation of privacy in medical records, one that protects those records from warrantless governmental inspection.
Khalil v. Williams
Concurrence would have overturned precedent barring post-settlement legal malpractice suits absent fraud as inconsistent with open court remedies clause provision of constitution
Texas Department of State Health Services v. Crown Distributing LLC
Ruled that constitution's due-course clause does not protect companies’ asserted interest in manufacturing or processing smokable hemp products
State v. Soto
Ruled that potential statements made by court personnel to jurors in an elevator constituted improper contact violating defendant's right to an impartial jury
Neiman v. LaRose
Ruled Ohio Redistricting Commission plan violates Ohio Constitution as it unduly favors Republican Party and unduly disfavors Democratic Party and is therefore invalid
Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, Inc. v. Reynolds ex rel. State
Held that there is no fundamental right to abortion under the state constitution, overruling 2018 decision
State v. Kelliher
Held that a de facto life sentence for a juvenile defendant whom a trial court deemed “neither incorrigible nor irredeemable” violates the state constitution
State v. Hassan
Holding that a mandatory sentence of life without parole is not unconstitutionally cruel when imposed on a 21-year-old defendant who has been convicted of first-degree premeditated murder
Commonwealth v. Reed
Concurrence would have clarified that state constitution provides greater protections than the Fourth Amendment
Doe v. Madison Metropolitan School District
Dissent would have granted parents' request to enjoin school policy on gender-identity and decide if it interferes with parents' right to educate and raise their children
