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
Consolidated actions challenging Florida’s congressional map as violating the state's Fair Districts Amendment. The map remains in place after a trial court denied 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
PFLAG v. Office of the Attorney General
Texas Supreme Court held LGBTQ+ organization must respond to information requests issued by the state as part of its investigation of whether doctors are evading Texas's ban on gender-affirming care for minors
In Re: Judge Mark B. Cohen
Pennsylvania Supreme Court affirmed suspension of sitting judge who posted partisan comments on social media, holding new balancing test applied to his speech
State v. Hidlebaugh
Iowa Supreme Court held that a prison sentence resulting in part from a defendant's failure to satisfy a financial obligation despite his good faith effort to do so, violated state and federal equal protection and due process
Hoke County Board of Education v. State of North Carolina
The North Carolina Supreme Court overturned its own precedent and put an end to more than 30 years of litigation involving the funding of public education in the state
Committee to Protect and Preserve the Idaho Constitution v. State of Idaho
Idaho Supreme Court upheld school-choice program, finding it did not violate legislature's duty to maintain a uniform system of free public schools or the public purpose doctrine
Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust Fund v. Stitt
Oklahoma Supreme Court held that a law providing that directors of a trust overseeing allocation of state funds may be removed at will violated a constitutional amendment providing the directors shall serve a specific term
Missouri State Conference of the NAACP v. State
Missouri Supreme Court held that voters and advocacy organizations lacked standing to challenge the constitutionality of Missouri’s strict photo ID requirements
League of Women Voters of Missouri v. State
The Missouri Supreme Court permanently enjoined legislation criminalizing third-party voter registration and voter-engagement activities, affirming a lower court decision that the restrictions violated core political speech
Northwest Landowners Association v. State
The North Dakota Supreme Court held, in part, that pre-condemnation survey provisions that authorize survey access to landowners' properties is not facially invalid under state takings laws because there is no protected interested in excluding limited, innocuous intrusion by pre-condemnation surveyors
Ward v. State
The Indiana Supreme Court held that post-conviction relief under the state's constitution does not apply to the method in which that sentence is carried out and is instead limited to the conviction or sentence
