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 March 2025.
Featured Cases
Evers v. Marklein
Wisconsin Supreme Court held that statutes permitting a legislative committee to pause, object to, or suspend administrative rules for varying periods of time both before and after promulgation — used by the committee in this case effectively to block for three years a rule banning “conversion therapy” for LGBTQ+ patients — facially violate the state constitution’s bicameralism and presentment requirements.
Kaul v. Urmanski
Wisconsin Supreme Court held that an 1849 law, which a local prosecutor had claimed was a near-total abortion ban, is impliedly repealed as to abortion by subsequent legislation and does not ban the procedure in the state.
Contoocook Valley School District v. New Hampshire
The New Hampshire Supreme Court affirmed the state's existing education funding law is constitutionally inadequate and $7,356.01 per pupil as a minimum constitutional guidepost for the legislature, but reversed the trial court's injunction directing the state immediately to pay that amount because the court failed to give adequate weight to separation of powers concerns.
Gonzales v. Inslee
Upheld governor’s pandemic-era moratorium on rent-based evictions as not violating contracts, takings, court access, or separation of powers provisions
Bennett et al. v. Ohio Redistricting Commission et al.
Held that legislative districts violated new constitutional provisions prohibiting partisan gerrymandering
League of Women Voters Ohio et al. v. Ohio Redistricting Commission et al.
Held that legislative districts violated new constitutional provisions prohibiting partisan gerrymandering
Monforton v. Knudsen
Upheld attorney general’s determination that proposed property tax ballot initiative violated constitution’s separate-vote requirement
State v. Barnett
Ruled that state constitution does not require district courts to deny bail for a “double felony defendant,” a defendant already serving probation on a felony conviction
State v. Reynolds
Dissent would have held that even under "three strikes" law, it is unconstitutional to rely on juvenile criminal conduct to impose a life without parole sentence
Roberts v. Cuthpert
Ruled that statute allowing recovery of costs from a probate judge who improperly denies a gun license does not violate separation of powers
State ex rel. Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights v. Ohio Ballot Board
Found ballot language for measure protecting reproductive rights, including the term "unborn child," not to be misleading or improperly argumentative in violation of the state constitution, except held that the term "citizens of the State" misleads the average voter about whose actions the amendment restricts.
Stand Up Montana v. Missoula County Public Schools
Held that mask mandates did not violate students' and parents' substantive due process rights
Snaza v. State
Struck down law requiring sheriffs to get authorization before deploying tear gas as unconstitutional for interfering with sheriffs’ core functions
