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 March 2025.
Featured Cases
Black Voters Matter v. Byrd
Florida Supreme Court upheld the state's 2022 congressional map against voting rights groups' challenge that it diminishes Black voters' ability to elect candidates of their choice in violation of a 2010 amendment, finding the plaintiffs had not proven the possibility of drawing a remedial map that complies with the federal equal protection clause.
Evers v. Marklein
Wisconsin Supreme Court held that statutes permitting a legislative committee to pause, object to, or suspend administrative rules for varying periods of time both before and after promulgation — used by the committee in this case effectively to block for three years a rule banning “conversion therapy” for LGBTQ+ patients — facially violate the state constitution’s bicameralism and presentment requirements.
Kaul v. Urmanski
Wisconsin Supreme Court held that an 1849 law, which a local prosecutor had claimed was a near-total abortion ban, is impliedly repealed as to abortion by subsequent legislation and does not ban the procedure in the state.
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
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
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
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
Richard v. Speaker of the House of Representatives
Ruled no due process right to public legislative hearing on citizen's remonstrance where there is no constitutional mandate to assemble legislature to hear remonstrances
City of Olathe v. City of Spring Hill
Held that home-rule amendment to the Kansas Constitution does not abrogate the rule that a City Council cannot bind a future City Council to its policy decisions
Johnson v. State
Dissent would have held that order restricting petitioner’s future filings in forma pauperis violated constitutional right to access the courts
