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 September 2025.
Featured Cases
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
Hoke County Board of Education v. State of North Carolina
The North Carolina Supreme Court overturned its own precedent and put an end to more than 30 years of litigation involving the funding of public education in the state
Commonwealth v. Lee
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that mandating a life sentence, without the possibility of parole, for “felony murder” — a legal doctrine that allows someone to be prosecuted for murder for any death that occurs during the commission of a separate felony, even if the defendant never meant to kill anyone — violates the Pennsylvania Constitution’s ban on “cruel” punishments
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
NAACP v. Tennessee
Challenge to Tennessee's mid-decade congressional redistricting, claiming 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, as required by the state constitution
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
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
In re Schoenhals
Washington Supreme Court held that Washington's constitutional prohibition on mandatory life-without-parole sentences for 18-to-20-year-old offenders is a substantive constitutional rule that applies retroactively on collateral review
Maunalua Bay Beach Ohana 28 v. State
Hawaii Supreme Court held that Hawaii's Takings Clause does not waive sovereign immunity for awards of attorneys' fees in inverse condemnation cases against the State
In re A.K.M.
Montana Supreme Court held that Montana's Equal Protection Clause requires extending the right to court-appointed counsel that indigent parents have in abuse-and-neglect cases to indigent parents in private termination-of-parental-rights proceedings
State v. Spies
Hawaii Supreme Court held that officers engaging in consensual interrogation after a traffic stop must clearly inform the person that they are free to go prior to commencing the interrogation, absent independent reasonable suspicion justifying continued detention
