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 August 2024.
Featured Cases
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.
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"
State v. Poe
Held that right to restitution for crime victims does not confer standing on victims to seek or renew orders of restitution in criminal cases when the state declines to do so
Dutchess v. Dutch
Ruled granting decision-making authority to father regarding vaccinating children did not violate mother’s constitutional rights to free exercise of religion or due process
Moynihan v. Lynch
Held that a statute requiring that parties to a palimony agreement obtain counsel before signing the contract violates substantive due process
Advocates for School Trust Lands v. State
Held that statute relinquishing the state's ownership of certain water rights did not violate the state's constitutional trustee duties
State v. Carr
Affirmed death sentence and upheld constitutionality of the state's capital punishment scheme
Awad v. State
Ruled that the right against self-incrimination prohibits the admission into evidence of a defendant's refusal to urinate into a collection container
In re Senate Joint Resolution of Legislative Apportionment 100
Upheld legislative district apportionment plan as satisfying constitution's redistricting provisions
State v. Elwell
Concurrence wrote that an officer must have immediate, apparent knowledge that there is incriminating evidence before them to satisfy the plain view exception for warrantless searches
Zab v. Rhode Island Department of Corrections
Held unconstitutional a civil death statute which barred civil claims by anyone incarcerated under a life sentence
In re Opinion of the Justices
Advisory opinion interpreting the governor's constitutional authority to remove state officers
