Capitalize the state’s full title

Warning²Federal courts, Illinois courts21st and 22nd editions

“State” and “Commonwealth” carry a capital where the word is part of a state’s full title, as in “the State of Kansas” and “the Commonwealth of Massachusetts”.¹

1. 1R. 8(d)(ii) Exceptions; R. 8(c)(ii) Exceptions.
2. 2A warning: the form is usually wrong under the rule in note 1, and context can justify it.