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
League of Women Voters of Utah v. Utah State Legislature (LWV 1)
Utah Supreme Court dismissed legislators' appeal from trial court ruling that struck the state's congressional map. Lower court said law the map was enacted under violated a fundamental right of voters to alter or reform their government — recognized by the Utah high court earlier in the case — by repealing a redistricting-reform initiative, and subsequently adopted plaintiffs' proposed alternative map
Commonwealth v. Council for Better Education; LaFontaine v. Council for Better Education
Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that a law providing for charter schools funds education outside the “system of common schools,” in violation of clauses requiring the legislature to establish such a system and voters to approve such funding
McDougle v. Nardo
Virginia Supreme Court permitted legislature's proposed amendment to redraw the state’s congressional map to proceed to a vote, while it considers appeal of trial court decision finding the legislative process unconstitutional
Smith v. Fontes
The Arizona Supreme Court held an election statute requiring the Secretary of State to double count some invalid signatures violated the U.S. and state constitutions because it effectively raised the 15% signature threshold for proposing a constitutional amendment via initiative to 15.2%
State v. Alford
The Montana Supreme Court held that the mandatory minimum custodial sentence for felony DUIs was not facially unconstitutional under the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause in the state's constitution
McDougle v. Nardo
Virginia Supreme Court permitted legislature's proposed amendment to redraw the state’s congressional map to proceed to a vote, while it considers appeal of trial court decision finding the legislative process unconstitutional
State v. Roberts
Oregon Supreme Court held that state's failure to appoint counsel for an indigent criminal defendant for an extended time period violates the right to counsel and imposed a general rule for how long before dismissal without prejudice is required
State Public Defender v. Iowa District Court for Scott County
Iowa Supreme Court ruled that trial court acted beyond its authority when it did not accept public defender's representation that it had a temporary overload of cases
Rutledge v. Clearway Energy Group LLC
Delaware Supreme Court upheld corporate law changes that retroactively alter the standard of review and relief the Chancery Court may award for certain transactions involving controlling shareholders
Individual Members of the Medical Licensing Board of Indiana v. Anonymous Plaintiff 1
Indiana Supreme Court declined to review intermediate court's affirmance that religious and spiritual plaintiffs were entitled to a temporary injunction against the state's abortion ban; lower court entered a permanent injunction as to the plaintiffs and a certified class on remand
Clarke v. Town of Newburgh
New York Court of Appeals held local government could not assert state or federal equal protection challenge to the vote dilution provision of the state's Voting Rights Act
