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 January 2025.
Featured Cases
Vet Voice Foundation v. Hobbs
Washington Supreme Court held requirement that election workers verify voter signatures on mail ballots, when coupled with the state’s recently expanded process for notifying voters and providing an opportunity to cure when a signature mismatch is identified, does not facially violate the state constitution’s free and equal elections, privileges and immunities, or due process clause.
SisterSong v. Georgia
Plaintiffs claim that abortion ban violates the state constitution’s right to liberty and privacy and guarantee of equal protection
Texas v. Margaret Daley Carpenter
Texas’s attorney general sued a New York doctor for mailing abortion-including drugs to a woman in Texas, claiming she practiced medicine in Texas without a Texas license and improperly aided an abortion. After the doctor did not respond to the complaint, a Texas trial court issued a default judgment enjoining her from prescribing abortion-inducing drugs to state residents and imposing $100,000 in civil penalties, as sought by the attorney general.
Scott v. Pennsylvania Board of Parole
Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled it lacked jurisdiction to hear petition for review of parole board's denial of parole applications of people serving mandatory sentences of life without parole for felony murder. Petitioners sought a declaration that application of statute denying parole to individuals serving life sentences to those convicted of felony murder was unconstitutional under state ban on cruel punishments.
State v. Carter
Concurrence would revisit prior jurisprudence holding that the Ohio constitution's confrontation clause must be interpreted in lockstep with that of the federal constitution
Rainwaters v. Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency
Rejected federal "open fields" exception to the federal Fourth Amendment in interpreting Article I, Section 7, of the Tennessee Constitution
Cobb County v. Floam
Held that the claims of two citizens who sought a declaratory judgment that their local board of commissioners acted unconstitutionally when it changed the commission district boundaries lines must be dismissed because the plaintiffs did not show any uncertainty as to their future conduct that warranted declaratory relief.
Advisory Opinion to the Attorney General re: Adult Personal Use of Marijuana
Held that the proposed ballot initiative to legalize the recreational use of marijuana under Florida law met the constitution's single-subject requirement
Drummond v. Statewide Virtual Charter Schoolboard
Ruled that the state education board’s approval of a Catholic school's application to be a public charter school violated the Oklahoma Constitution, the federal Establishment Clause, and the Oklahoma Charter Schools Act
People v. Lymon
Held that the act requiring registration as a sex offender violates the state constitutional ban on "cruel or unusual" punishments when applied to people whose convictions lack a sexual component
People v. Flores
Ruled that trying to avoid contact with or being seen by police is not enough to allow police to detain a person or hold them for questioning.
Rodriguez-Williams v. Johnson
Held that state legislators and anti-abortion organization did not have a right to intervene in an action challenging the constitutionality of state statutes restricting abortion
Joshua M. v. State
Three siblings who spent years of their childhood in the foster care system, where they suffered sexual and physical abuse, were barred by sovereign immunity from bringing claims against the state relating to that abuse.
