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
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
IntegrateNYC, Inc. v. State
New York Court of Appeals dismissed the plaintiffs' state constitutional claim that the NYC public education system discriminates against Black and Latino students, finding the allegations vague and conclusory
Ball v. Roman Catholic Bishop of Manchester
New Hampshire Supreme Court held that retroactive application of a law eliminating the statute of limitations for personal actions based on sexual assault would violate Part I, Article 23 of the New Hampshire Constitution
In re Schoenhals
Washington Supreme Court held that Washington's constitutional prohibition on mandatory life-without-parole sentences for 18-to-20-year-old offenders is a substantive constitutional rule that applies retroactively on collateral review
Maunalua Bay Beach Ohana 28 v. State
Hawaii Supreme Court held that Hawaii's Takings Clause does not waive sovereign immunity for awards of attorneys' fees in inverse condemnation cases against the State
State v. Spies
Hawaii Supreme Court held that officers engaging in consensual interrogation after a traffic stop must clearly inform the person that they are free to go prior to commencing the interrogation, absent independent reasonable suspicion justifying continued detention
In re A.K.M.
Montana Supreme Court held that Montana's Equal Protection Clause requires extending the right to court-appointed counsel that indigent parents have in abuse-and-neglect cases to indigent parents in private termination-of-parental-rights proceedings
Roebuck v. Mayo Clinic
Arizona Supreme Court held that eliminating a patient's right to recover damages for ordinary negligence violates the Arizona Constitution's anti-abrogation clause
In re Kowalczyk
California Supreme Court recognized a right to pretrial release, absent delineated exceptions in one provision, that generally requires courts to set any bail in an amount reasonably attainable for the arrestee
People v. Kopp
California Supreme Court held that excessive fines clause is proper vehicle for challenging imposition of a fine; and equal protection requires courts before assessing certain fees to consider a criminal defendant's inability to pay, as laws imposing similar fees in civil cases contain a waiver option for indigent litigants
