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. Lamoureux
Ruled that statute criminalizing intimidating, harassing or offensive communications is not facially overbroad and does not constitute a content-based restriction in violation of free speech protections
City of Crestwood v. Affton Fire Protection District
Upheld statutory scheme governing a city's annexation of an unincorporated area served by a fire protection district as not a constitutionally invalid special law, local tax, or unfunded mandate
Texas State University v. Villarreal
Ruled that student's dismissal from state university does not implicate a protected liberty interest, and notification of the reason and ability to respond are adequate to satisfy due course of law clause
Texas Propane Gas Association v. City of Houston
Concurrence and Dissent would have held that standing requires plaintiffs challenging a statutory or regulatory scheme plead facts showing injury arising from every provision they want enjoined
State ex rel. Brnovich v. City of Tucson
Ruled state constitution's home rule provision precludes a statute requiring a charter city to consolidate local elections with state and national elections
State ex rel. Kotek v. Fagan
Ruled that it is an exercise of the court's mandamus authority to revise deadlines for state officials' constitutional redistricting duties when pandemic delayed federal census data
State v. Snyder
Ruled that domestic violence emergency protective orders are not de facto search warrants and do not meet the probable cause standards under the search and seizure clause
State v. Sutterfield
Ruled that arrest by police officer for completed misdemeanor that occurred outside the officer's presence did not violate search and seizure clause where officer was assisting a private individual conducting a citizen arrest
State v. Heath
Ruled that religious liberty clause in section of constitution containing housekeeping provisions for the transition from territory to statehood was not intended to broaden the guarantee in the declaration of rights
Metcalfe v. State
Ruled repeal of statutory right of reinstatement unconstitutionally impaired or diminished an accrued benefit of the state employee retirement system
