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 May 2025.
Featured Cases
League of Women Voters of South Carolina v. Alexander
South Carolina Supreme Court held that partisan gerrymandering claims are nonjusticiable political questions, which state courts cannot review, under the state constitution.
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.
Black Voters Matter v. Byrd
Florida Supreme Court upheld the state's 2022 congressional map against voting rights groups' challenge that it diminishes Black voters' ability to elect candidates of their choice in violation of a 2010 amendment, finding the plaintiffs had not proven the possibility of drawing a remedial map that complies with the federal equal protection clause.
Frazier v. Talbert
Ruled that in proceeding for revocation of a driver's license for DUI, where the driver demanded a blood test, but that test was never given, there is no per se violation of constitutional due process
State v. Hamer
Ruled that rights to jury trial and to waive jury trial do not make trial court's failure to follow statutorily prescribed procedure for waiver of a jury trial a structural error
Deminski v. State Board of Education
Ruled that a claim for violation of right to sound basic education exists where a government entity with control over schools is deliberately indifferent to ongoing harassment that prevents a student from learning
Cheryl Lloyd Humphrey Land Inv. Co. v. Resco Products, Inc.
Ruled that right of assembly and petition protects statements made before a local political subdivision during a public zoning process, regardless of whether the statements were malicious or false
State ex rel. AmerisourceBergen Drug Corp. v. Moats
Ruled that conducting a bench trial on plaintiffs' equitable claims before trying to a jury plaintiffs' legal claims violates defendants' constitutional right to trial by jury
Brown v. Gianforte
Ruled that statute abolishing judicial nomination commission and screening process does not violate constitutional provision that governor will fill vacancies with nominees selected in a manner provided by law
State v. Keys
Ruled that constitutional provision prescribing charging procedures for felonies does not establish that a defendant's defective waiver of a probable cause hearing deprives a court of subject matter jurisdiction
Hudson v. State (In re K. H.)
Ruled that in parental rights termination proceeding, admitting evidence of pending child abuse charges against parents was so inherently prejudicial that it violated right to a fair trial
State v. Smith
Upheld statute imposing mandatory 100-year sentence and lifetime GPS monitoring for adult convicted of child sexual abuse
State v. Wilson
Ruled that state's pandemic public health orders imposing occupancy limitations on some categories of businesses, do not support a claim for just compensation under takings clause
