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
Florida Supreme Court denied petition seeking to halt use of the state's new congressional map while consolidated challenges to the map under the state's Fair Districts Amendment proceed. An appellate court is reviewing a trial court's denial of 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
Jurgensen v. Dave Perkins Contracting, Inc.
The Minnesota Supreme Court held that the capped fee did not violate the Minnesota Constitution Contracts Clause because the law was in effect when the attorney-client contract was formed
Wisconsin State Legislature v. Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
The Wisconsin Supreme Court held that a bill passed by the legislature creating accounts to fund literacy programs was not subject to the Governor’s partial-veto authority under the state constitution
Guy v. Hous. Authority of Augusta
The Supreme Court of Georgia held that whether the Housing Authority of the City of Augusta's is entitled to sovereign immunity must be resolved by examining the common law as it existed in 1776
People v. Barrett
The Supreme Court of California upheld the constitutionality of Penal Code section 190.2's lying-in-wait special circumstance and the use of the defendant's juvenile conviction, reasoning that these provisions sufficiently narrowed the class of death-eligible defendants and were consistent with the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
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
Johnson v. Commonwealth
The Kentucky Supreme Court held the trial court violated the defendant’s Confrontation Clause rights when it allowed the widow of the murder victim and key witness to testify remotely via Zoom
State v. Scullark
The Supreme Court of Iowa held that the search of the defendant's fanny pack was valid as a search incident to arrest
Bain v. City of Cheyenne
The Wyoming Supreme Court held a provision of the Wyoming Governmental Claims Act capping the liability of governmental entities and public employees did not violate the Wyoming Constitution’s prohibition on the enactment of laws limiting the amount of damages to be recovered for causing the injury or death of any person
Texas v. Bruck
New York trial court dismissed Texas's petition seeking to order county clerk to accept its filing intended to begin the process of enforcing that state's default judgment against a New York doctor, who allegedly sent abortion pills to a Texas woman
Commonwealth v. Hunte
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that state law mandating warrantless blood draws from individuals suspected of DUIs is facially unconstitutional
