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
Johnson v. Wyoming
Wyoming Supreme Court struck down the state's abortion and medication abortion bans for violating a 2012 amendment that granted adults the right to make their own health care decisions
League of Women Voters of Utah v. Utah State Legislature (LWV 1)
Utah Supreme Court sent partisan gerrymandering case back to lower court to consider whether the legislature violated voters' fundamental right to "reform or alter" their government when it overturned redistricting reforms passed by initiative. Lower court found legislators violated that right and struck the current congressional map, adopting an alternative proposed by the plaintiffs
Jackson v. Florida
Florida Supreme Court upheld a 2023 law that permits eligible defendants to be sentenced to death on the recommendation of only 8 of 12 jurors
White v. Stitt
Oklahoma Supreme Court struck down law creating new business courts in the state’s two most populous counties
State v. Michael Sharpe
Connecticut Supreme Court held that neither the police’s collection of DNA from a discarded belt, nor the subsequent analysis of that DNA solely for purposes of identifying the defendant, violated his privacy rights
City of Cincinnati, ex rel. Mark Miller v. City of Cincinnati
Ohio Supreme Court will consider whether lower court erred in reading additional taxpayer standing requirements into a statute permitting taxpayers to sue on a city's behalf to stop abuses of municipal power if the city fails to pursue the action itself
Gatehouse Media Ohio Holdings v. City of Columbus Police Department
Ohio Supreme Court ruled officers shot at by a suspect they ultimately killed in return fire are crime victims entitled to privacy right in Ohio's Marsy's Law amendment and redacting their identities does not violate any general state constitutional right to access public records
Rutledge v. Clearway Energy Group LLC
Delaware Supreme Court will consider whether corporate law changes that remove the Chancery Court's ability to award equitable relief for transactions satisfying a "safe harbor" unconstitutionally divests that court of jurisdiction and whether retroactive application of the safe harbor violates plaintiffs' rights by eliminating claims that were already accrued or vested.
Access Independent Health Services v. Wrigley
North Dakota Supreme Court upheld state's abortion ban despite three of five justices concluding a health-risk exception was unconstitutionally vague, because the state constitution requires four justices to declare legislation unconstitutional
State v. James Ellis
Washington Supreme Court held restitution imposed on an indigent defendant did not violate state or federal excessive fines clause, finding the amount to be compensatory, not punitive.
Commonwealth v. Anthony Lewis
Pennsylvania Supreme Court declined to adopt stringent test for the evidence required to designate an area “high crime” in order for that circumstance to be a factor in whether reasonable suspicion exists for a police stop, leaving it to the discretion of the supression court.
City of Kalispell v. Doman
Montana Supreme Court will consider whether a law against obstructing a peace officer violates federal and state speech protections as applied to a defendant arrested while recording on his cellphone police conducting a traffic stop in a public place.
McVay v. Cockroft
Oklahoma Supreme Court will consider whether a law making it harder for citizen initiative petitions to qualify for the ballot violates citizens' state constitutional initative, free speech, and equal protection rights.
