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
MacDonald v. Simon
Held that a lawyer with suspended license was not “learned in the law” as required by the Minnesota constitution, and thus was not eligible to run for election as a justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
People v. Jennings
Will consider what standard Michigan courts should adopt to determine whether prosecutorial misconduct bars retrial under the state’s double jeopardy clause. The defendant argues that the federal constitutional standard--which requires proof that a prosecutor specifically intended to cause a mistrial--inadequately protects the principles of double jeopardy and insufficiently deters egregious conduct, so an objective standard should apply under the Michigan Constitution.
Individual Members of the Medical Licensing Board of Indiana v. Anonymous Plaintiff 1
Appellate court upheld a temporary injunction against Indiana's 2022 abortion ban based on religious freedom claims, but held the injunction was overly broad because it enjoined enforcement of the abortion law in ways that did not violate the state's religious freedom act. Remanded for entry of a narrower injunction. Indiana Supreme Court did not take up an appeal of the appellate court ruling, leaving it in place.
Ex parte Jackson Hospital & Clinic
Ruled that the Governor's emergency proclamation limiting healthcare providers' liability for negligence as to COVID-19 was neither unconstitutional under the separation-of-powers clause nor the provision that only the Legislature could suspend laws, nor did it violate the constitutional prohibition on curtailing a right to a remedy
Cincinnati Enquirer v. Bloom
Found the blanket sealing of a juvenile’s delinquency records when the juvenile is found not delinquent — the juvenile equivalent of not guilty — unconstitutional because there was no determination that the harm to the juvenile outweighed the public’s right to access court records
Gonzalez v. Miller
Unanimously affirmed the denial of a district attorney’s effort to dismiss a state Open Records Act request relating to her office’s “failure . . . to effectively prosecute criminal cases, and an open disregard for the laws of the State of Georgia"
Paschall v. Thurston
Ruled that votes for a proposed marijuana-related amendment will not be counted because the name and ballot description for the measure are misleading
Genser v. Butler County Board of Elections
Held citizens whose mail-in ballots were disqualified for a failure to return them in the required secrecy envelope have a right to cast a provisional ballot and have it count.
Commonwealth v. Yard
Held that the evidentiary limitation that requires that "proof is evident or presumption great," which calls for a burden of proof between probable cause and beyond a reasonable doubt, does not apply to the life-offense exception to the right to bail under the state constitution
State ex rel. Collar v. Evnen
Held that referendum seeking to repeal act providing scholarships to eligible students to cover costs of schooling did not make an "appropriation" within the meaning of constitutional exception to referendum power
