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 October 2025.
Featured Cases
Equal Ground Education Fund v. Byrd; Vaccari v. Byrd; Common Cause v. DeSantis
Consolidated actions challenging Florida’s congressional map as violating the state's Fair Districts Amendment. The map remains in place after a trial court denied a temporary injunction
NAACP v. Tennessee
Tennessee lower court dismissed challenge to the state's mid-decade congressional redistricting, which claimed the legislature did not have authority to alter state laws to allow the redistrictring because those alterations were not specifically included in the governor's proclamation calling the session
McDougle v. Scott
Virginia Supreme Court, in a split decision, nullified a constitutional amendment approved by voters that would have allowed the state's congressional districts to be redrawn, finding the legislative process used for the amendment violated the state constitution
State v. Hauge
Held the constitution does not require individuals be informed that they are free to refuse consent to a warrantless search
Bass v. City of Edmonds
Held that a city ordinance requiring that guns be stored safely and kept out of unauthorized hands is preempted by state firearms law
Illinois Road & Transportation Builders Association v. The County of Cook
Dissent wrote that an amendment restricting how government may use transportation-related revenue can only apply to state revenue under home rule provisions which empower localities
Nevada Policy Research Institute, Inc. v. Cannizzaro
Established an exception to traditional standing requirements when an appropriate party seeks to enforce a public official's compliance with Nevada's separation-of-powers clause
Association of Village Council Presidents Regional Housing Authority v. Mael
Ruled statutory noneconomic damages cap’s failure to account for inflation does not violate due process rights
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
White v. Cuomo
Upheld legislature's determination that interactive fantasy sports are skill-based games not prohibited by the constitution's gambling prohibition
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
