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
Wisconsin State Legislature v. Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
The Wisconsin Supreme Court held that a bill passed by the legislature creating accounts to fund literacy programs was not subject to the Governor’s partial-veto authority under the state constitution
Guy v. Hous. Authority of Augusta
The Supreme Court of Georgia held that whether the Housing Authority of the City of Augusta's is entitled to sovereign immunity must be resolved by examining the common law as it existed in 1776
People v. Barrett
The Supreme Court of California upheld the constitutionality of Penal Code section 190.2's lying-in-wait special circumstance and the use of the defendant's juvenile conviction, reasoning that these provisions sufficiently narrowed the class of death-eligible defendants and were consistent with the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
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
Johnson v. Commonwealth
The Kentucky Supreme Court held the trial court violated the defendant’s Confrontation Clause rights when it allowed the widow of the murder victim and key witness to testify remotely via Zoom
State v. Scullark
The Supreme Court of Iowa held that the search of the defendant's fanny pack was valid as a search incident to arrest
Bain v. City of Cheyenne
The Wyoming Supreme Court held a provision of the Wyoming Governmental Claims Act capping the liability of governmental entities and public employees did not violate the Wyoming Constitution’s prohibition on the enactment of laws limiting the amount of damages to be recovered for causing the injury or death of any person
State v. Herzog
The Montana Supreme Court held that the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and Article II, Section 11 of the Montana Constitution protect individuals from unreasonable searches and seizuress, but a temporary investigative stop, or Terry stop, is a recognized exception that the State has the burden of affirmatively proving by demonstrating an officer had the requisite particularized suspicion particularized suspicion based on specific and articulable objective facts
Kratovil v. City of New Brunswick
The Supreme Court of New Jersey held Daniel's Law is constitutional under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and Article I Paragraph 6 of the New Jersey Constitution
Commonwealth v. Hunte
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that state law mandating warrantless blood draws from individuals suspected of DUIs is facially unconstitutional
