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
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
Commonwealth v. Kurtz
Pennsylvania Supreme Court held, in a split decision, that there was no enforceable expectation of privacy in Google searches of a victim's name and address
State v. Good Day Farm Arkansas
Arkansas Supreme Court held that a provision that voter-approved measures may be amended or repealed by a two-thirds vote of the legislature permits legislative changes to citizen-initiated constitutional amendments
Menzies v. Department of Corrections
Utah Supreme Court will consider challenge to the state's lethal injection and firing squad protocols as violating prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishment and treating incarcerated people with unnecessary rigor
Department of Development Services for the City of North Canton v. CF Homes
Ohio Supreme Court will consider whether the state's prohibition against unreasonable searches requires officials seeking to inspect homes for regulatory reasons, not for criminal violations, to make a greater showing than what federal law requires
