Methodology
Every statistic here is computed from public Supreme Court of India records, after removing duplicate rows. The records may contain errors or gaps. Figures are factual tallies, court-wide, by case type, by bench size or by cohort: not legal advice, not a ranking of advocates, and never a prediction about a named judge.
Defects
Defect cure time
How common each Registry defect is on fresh filings of a case type, and how many days it takes to cure it.
- How it is computed
- cases with the defect / filings of that case type and year; median and 90th percentile of (cure date - notification date) over cured defects; share cured within 28 days; share never cured
- Who is counted
- Cases with a fetched status page, filed from 2014, with defects notified from 2014-01-01; one row per case and defect code
- Minimum sample
- Shown only with at least 30 matching records
- Caveats
- Counted after removing duplicate rows. Only enriched cases are included (coverage grows as enrichment continues, newest first), so recent years are better covered. Defects notified before 2014 are left out: they were never marked cured. A defect is cured only when every notice of that code on the case was cured. With fewer than 30 cured defects only the counts are shown. Court-wide or by case type, never about an advocate, party or judge. Deadlines are estimates: check with the Registry.
- Sources
- Public Supreme Court of India records: case-status defects tab
- Data as of
- 26 Oct 2026, 2:40 am
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Timing
Time to disposal for similar matters
How long matters like the one chosen took from filing to disposal, counting the ones still pending.
- How it is computed
- Kaplan-Meier estimate of days from filing to disposal, with pending matters censored at their age on the refresh day: median, 25th, 75th and 90th percentile. The median of disposed matters only is shown beside it and is usually lower. Listings to disposal: median and 90th percentile, over disposed matters, of the distinct days up to disposal with a listing or a daily order. Not reached and adjourned per case: average over matters whose hearing remarks are coded. Cohort: case type x origin court x subject group x government side x filing years.
- Who is counted
- Canonical cases with a filing date, from 1950 to the last refresh
- Minimum sample
- Shown only with at least 30 matching records
- Caveats
- Counted after removing duplicate rows. Only enriched cases are included (coverage grows as enrichment continues, newest first), so older years are under-represented and their medians lean short. With fewer than 30 matters the cohort is widened by dropping subject, then government side, then origin court, and the dropped keys are reported. Statistics on similar past matters, never a prediction for one matter and never about a judge or bench. For Ind AS 37 provisioning this is supporting evidence only, not advice. Listing days before 2017 are known only from daily orders, so older matters count only the days with a recorded order. Listing and per-case counts are shown only when at least 30 matters and half the cohort have the records they need; otherwise a coverage note says how many do.
- Sources
- Public Supreme Court of India records: case status, earlier-court details, parties, subject category and hearings
- Data as of
- 26 Oct 2026, 2:30 am
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Duration distribution
How long matters take from filing to disposal, as a distribution rather than a single average.
- How it is computed
- quartiles of (disposal date - filing date), by case type and bench size
- Who is counted
- Disposed matters with valid filing and disposal dates, filed 1950 or later
- Minimum sample
- Shown only with at least 50 matching records
- Caveats
- Counted after removing duplicate rows and placeholder dates (such as 1900-01-01). Only enriched cases are included (coverage grows as enrichment continues, newest first), which skews towards recent disposals.
- Sources
- Public Supreme Court of India records: case status and judgment dates
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Chance of being reached by item number
Of the matters listed at a given item number on a court's cause list, the share the court reached that day. Also, how far the cause list's estimated call time was from the time the display board first showed the item.
- How it is computed
- reach rate = 1 - listings whose remarks carry NOT_TAKEN_UP / listings, with a Wilson 95% interval; item buckets 1-10, 11-20, 21-35, 36-50, 51+; by ISO weekday, listing purpose, case phase and bench size (number of judges). Backtest: the rate of the earlier months against the latest complete month, per bucket, within 5 points. Call time: first time the display board showed the item minus the estimated call start, median in minutes.
- Who is counted
- Court-bench cause-list entries matched to the case's parsed hearing remarks for that day
- Minimum sample
- Shown only with at least 50 matching records
- Caveats
- Historical frequency, not a guarantee for any matter. Shown only after at least 90 days of cause lists have been collected (cause lists exist from 2026-10-04) and at least 50 listings match. Registrar courts are left out. Counted after removing duplicate rows: a case listed twice on a day counts once, at its lowest item. Only enriched cases whose remarks have been parsed are included (coverage grows as enrichment continues, newest first). Mondays and Fridays are miscellaneous days with long lists, so read the item bucket together with the weekday. Call times are sampled every 30 seconds while the court sits. Bench means the number of judges, never who sat; there is no court, judge or advocate breakdown.
- Sources
- Public Supreme Court of India records: daily cause lists (item numbers and estimated times), the display board, hearing remarks parsed into procedural codes, listing purpose, case stage and hearing judges
- Data as of
- 26 Oct 2026, 2:59 am
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Listing window hit rate
How often a matter directed to be listed on or after a date was actually listed in that window.
- How it is computed
- hearings listed within the directed window / hearings with a listing direction
- Who is counted
- Hearings with a dated listing direction, from 2018 to the last refresh
- Minimum sample
- Shown only with at least 100 matching records
- Caveats
- Counted after removing duplicate rows. Only enriched cases are included (coverage grows as enrichment continues, newest first). Court-wide figures only.
- Sources
- Public Supreme Court of India records: hearing remarks and later listings
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Not-taken-up and reach rate
Share of listed hearings that the court recorded as "Not taken up" or "Not today", and its complement, the share of listings that were reached.
- How it is computed
- not reached = listings whose remarks carry NOT_TAKEN_UP; reach rate = 1 - not reached / listings, with a Wilson 95% interval; by ISO weekday, listing purpose, case phase and bench size (number of judges)
- Who is counted
- Listings from 2018 to the last refresh whose remarks have been parsed into procedural codes
- Minimum sample
- Shown only with at least 50 matching records
- Caveats
- Counted after removing duplicate rows. Only enriched cases are included (coverage grows as enrichment continues, newest first). Weekday largely stands for the type of day (Mondays and Fridays are miscellaneous days, about 2% not taken up; Tuesday to Thursday about 19-25%), so read it together with purpose and phase. Phase is the case's stage at its last refresh, not on the day of each hearing. Bench means the number of judges, never who sat. The earlier data audit found 10.1% not taken up; the live remarks gave 12.6-14.1% in October 2026. The likely reasons are that enrichment favours newer years and that a matter re-listed under the purpose "Not Taken Up" can be not taken up again. Shown only when at least 50 listings match. Describes what the court recorded; it is never attributed to a party or an advocate.
- Sources
- Public Supreme Court of India records: hearing remarks parsed into procedural codes, listing purpose, case stage and hearing judges
- Data as of
- 26 Oct 2026, 2:42 am
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Outcomes
How similar matters ended
Share of disposed matters like the one chosen by how they ended, and the relief rate.
- How it is computed
- Matters with each outcome / all disposed matters with a recorded outcome; relief rate = (allowed + partly allowed, including leave granted and allowed) / disposed. Same cohort as the duration benchmark.
- Who is counted
- Disposed canonical cases with a normalised outcome (DATA-024)
- Minimum sample
- Shown only with at least 50 matching records
- Caveats
- Counted after removing duplicate rows. Only enriched cases are included (coverage grows as enrichment continues, newest first). With fewer than 50 disposed matters the cohort is widened as for durations. Court-wide by cohort only: never for a named judge or bench, never a ranking of courts or advocates, and never a prediction for one matter.
- Sources
- Public Supreme Court of India records: disposal nature and case status
- Data as of
- 26 Oct 2026, 2:30 am
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How matters from each court ended in the Supreme Court
For each High Court or tribunal whose order was challenged, how the Supreme Court matters ended.
- How it is computed
- Per originating court (the primary impugned order): matters; outcomes of disposed matters; relief rate = (allowed + partly allowed) / disposed; dismissal rate = (dismissed + dismissed on delay) / disposed; delay-condoned share = matters with a DELAY_CONDONED_DISMISSED hearing code or a condonation-of-delay IA / matters; median days from filing to disposal of disposed matters. The same arithmetic as the outcome benchmark.
- Who is counted
- Canonical cases whose primary impugned order is from a High Court or tribunal
- Minimum sample
- Shown only with at least 50 matching records
- Caveats
- Counted after removing duplicate rows. Only enriched cases are included (coverage grows as enrichment continues, newest first). Courts with fewer than 50 disposed matters are flagged and given no rates. Listed alphabetically: this is how matters from each court ended, not a ranking of courts, and never a figure about any judge.
- Sources
- Public Supreme Court of India records: earlier-court details, disposal nature, hearing remarks and IAs
- Data as of
- 26 Oct 2026, 2:30 am
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Outcome base rate
Court-wide share of disposed matters by outcome (allowed, dismissed, disposed of, withdrawn).
- How it is computed
- matters with each outcome / all disposed matters, by case type and bench size
- Who is counted
- Disposed matters with a recorded outcome
- Minimum sample
- Shown only with at least 100 matching records
- Caveats
- Counted after removing duplicate rows. Only enriched cases are included (coverage grows as enrichment continues, newest first). Court-wide, by case type or by bench size only: never for a named judge, and never a prediction for a case.
- Sources
- Public Supreme Court of India records: disposal nature and hearing remarks
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Profiles
Government cohort measures
Duration, delay-condonation filings and outcomes for matters where a government body is a party, compared with other parties.
- How it is computed
- the duration, IA and outcome measures above, split by government vs non-government party
- Who is counted
- Enriched matters whose party is classified as government (Union, State, statutory bodies)
- Minimum sample
- Shown only with at least 100 matching records
- Caveats
- Counted after removing duplicate rows. Only enriched cases are included (coverage grows as enrichment continues, newest first). Party classification is rule-based and can misclassify; figures are cohort-level only.
- Sources
- Public Supreme Court of India records: parties, IAs and case status
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