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 March 2025.
Featured Cases
Kaul v. Urmanski
Wisconsin Supreme Court held that an 1849 law, which a local prosecutor had claimed was a near-total abortion ban, is impliedly repealed as to abortion by subsequent legislation and does not ban the procedure in the state.
Contoocook Valley School District v. New Hampshire
The New Hampshire Supreme Court affirmed the state's existing education funding law is constitutionally inadequate and $7,356.01 per pupil as a minimum constitutional guidepost for the legislature, but reversed the trial court's injunction directing the state immediately to pay that amount because the court failed to give adequate weight to separation of powers concerns.
Republican National Committee v. Eternal Vigilance Action, Inc; Georgia v. Eternal Vigilance Action
The Georgia Supreme Court ruled invalid under state nondelegation principles four of seven rules passed by the Georgia State Election board, while upholding one rule. The court did not decide the validity of two other rules, holding that the plaintiffs lacked standing to challenge the provisions.
Rutledge v. Remmel
Ruled constitution’s specific illegal-exaction provision controls over general sovereign immunity, allowing illegal exaction claim against Attorney General
Bentonville School District v. Sitton
Concurrence wrote that parents do not have fundamental right to micromanage elected school board’s operational decisions, in the context of a challenge to a school mask mandate
Commonwealth v. Edwards
Held that racial discrimination in jury selection does not always constitute prosecutorial misconduct requiring dismissal under the constitution's double jeopardy protections
People v. Moon
Held that the right to a jury trial requires that the jury be sworn to try the case
Moore v. Stirling
Held that though habeas review is limited to constitutional issues, this includes alleged violations of a statute mandating sentence proportionality review because violations would implicate due process rights
All Star Awards & Ad Specialties, Inc. v. HALO Branded Solutions
Held that a statutory damages cap did not violate the right to a jury trial because the relevant claims would not have been tried by a jury in 1820 when the constitutional right was adopted
Kellogg v. National Railroad Passenger Corp.
Ruled that a retroactive law permitting new civil claims by family members did not violate the contracts or due process rights of a tortfeasor that had no affected vested right
Westlawn Cemeteries, LLC v. The Louisiana Cemetery Board
Held that a rule governing cemetery trusts exceeded the promulgating agency's authority, violating the constitution's separation of powers provision
Mellor v. The Parish of Jefferson
Held that a local traffic ordinance tasking school boards with enforcement violated home rule provisions which prohibit local legislative bodies from affecting school boards
Hawkins v. Ivey
Ruled statutes affording governor’s discretion to opt out of federally enhanced unemployment benefits programs did not create exception to state immunity under constitution
