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
League of Women Voters of Utah v. Utah State Legislature (LWV 1)
Utah Supreme Court dismissed legislators' appeal from trial court ruling that struck the state's congressional map. Lower court said law the map was enacted under violated a fundamental right of voters to alter or reform their government — recognized by the Utah high court earlier in the case — by repealing a redistricting-reform initiative, and subsequently adopted plaintiffs' proposed alternative map
Commonwealth v. Council for Better Education; LaFontaine v. Council for Better Education
Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that a law providing for charter schools funds education outside the “system of common schools,” in violation of clauses requiring the legislature to establish such a system and voters to approve such funding
McDougle v. Nardo
Virginia Supreme Court permitted legislature's proposed amendment to redraw the state’s congressional map to proceed to a vote, while it considers appeal of trial court decision finding the legislative process unconstitutional
Commonwealth v. Meta Platforms
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court will consider, in part, whether the state's claims about Instagram's addictive design features and representations of the safety of its services are barred by state and federal speech protections
Commonwealth v. Arias
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court will consider whether a traffic stop a lower court found to be pretextual, and subsequent arrest for a separate low-level traffic offense, violate the state's search and seizure clause
Department of Environmental Protection v. Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau; Bowfin KeyCon Holdings v. Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
Pennsylvania Supreme Court heard arguments related to separation of powers and environmental rights amendment in consolidated challenges to the state's participation in a regional program to cap greenhouse gases before dismissing the challenges as moot
Michigan Immigrant Rights Center v. Governor
Michigan Supreme Court, post-oral argument, denied petition for review raising whether a statute barring claims against the state unless the plaintiff provides notice of the claim within one year of accrual, applies to constitutional claims for prospective relief against officials
State ex rel. Boggs v. City of Cleveland
Ohio Supreme Court held a municipality's state constitutional duty to pay compensation when its actions amount to a taking applies regardless of whether the property being taken is outside the city's boundaries.
Luther v. Hoskins
Voters challenge Missouri's new congressional district map arguing the state constitution prohibits mid-decade redistricting.
Eyman v. Hobbs
Washington Supreme Court held secretary of state did not have a clear duty to advance a proposed parental rights referendum because the legislation that would have been put to vote included a valid emergency declaration exempting it from the referendum power.
Netzer v. State
Montana Supreme Court held provisions of a law barring discrimination based on vaccine status, including a ban on mandating vaccines that have not completed safety trials, do not violate the state constitution's single-subject requirement.
State v. Hemion
Oregon Supreme Court ruled open courts clause and public records statute did not authorize trial court to order a public defense provider to turn over caseload records related to its representation of indigent criminal defendants
Preterm-Cleveland v. Yost
Plaintiffs claimed that the state's six-week abortion ban violates the fundamental right of individual liberty, as well as equal protection and due process guarantees
