The corpus in numbers

Statistics

Every number on this page is regenerated by the nightly rebuild and read live from the same file the homepage uses. Nothing here is typed by hand.

1’080’221

source recordsas of 2026-09-16 · +229 since the previous rebuild

Source recordsRows in the decisions table. Where a court publishes one decision under two identifiers, both are kept and linked, never deleted.
1’080’221
Unique decisionsSource records minus 140’803 cross-identifier duplicates (GE, VD, SH, VPB, NW, UR, EDÖB).
939’418
Decisions of Swiss courts and authoritiesUnique decisions minus 9’627 ECtHR judgments and the 23’046 VPB rows. Approximate: VPB duplicates already collapsed above are subtracted again, so the true figure is slightly higher.
≈ 906’745
123
Courts and authorities
21’153
Laws in force
496’041 articles
10.0M
Resolved citations
6’169
Federal Council dispatches
1’173
Commentaries
44’434
Scholarship records
9’627
ECtHR judgments

Decisions

Where the records come from.

Federal and cantonal

“Federal” here includes the ECtHR judgments and the VPB administrative rulings.

By language

By decision year

Decision year, not the date we ingested it. The current year keeps filling as courts publish.

By canton

Largest collections

Added in the last rebuild

European Court of Human Rights

judgments in the corpus

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with Switzerland as respondent

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Grand Chamber, Swiss cases

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against Switzerland this year

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Growth

How the corpus has grown.

Source records and unique decisions, one point per day

Source recordsUnique decisions

Taken from the committed stats.json of each day. Vertical steps are bulk imports; the slope between them is the nightly intake.

Last 30 days

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Since May 2026

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Last data point

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Legislation

Federal and cantonal law.

Federal laws

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— articles

Cantonal laws

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Laws in force

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— articles

Cantonal laws by canton

Upcoming amendments

In forceAct

Legislative materials

Federal Council dispatches, verbatim.

Botschaften

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Paragraphs

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full-text indexed

Article links

paragraphs tied to a specific article of law

By language

Commentaries and scholarship

Open-access legal writing.

Commentaries

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article-by-article, from Onlinekommentar and partner publishers

Scholarship records

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By source

By type

Citation graph

Who cites whom.

decision → decision

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resolved edges

decision → statute

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resolved edges

Most cited decision

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Most cited provision

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Five most cited decisions

Decisioncitations

Five most cited provisions

Provisionreferences

Quality

What the records contain.

Headnote coverage

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records with a Regeste—

Duplicate share

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second representations—

Time span

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Freshness

When it was last rebuilt.

Corpus rebuilt

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Cantonal scrape

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Federal scrape

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Records added

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The rebuild starts at 03:30 UTC every night and the scrapers run every day. Per-source status, including known gaps, is on the coverage page. See the coverage page

Usage

How much it is used.

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By client

By HTTP status

Data

Take the numbers with you.

Everything on this page is a public file you can fetch directly.

/stats.json

All figures, regenerated nightly

 /stats/history.json

Daily series behind the growth chart

 /coverage/

Per-source coverage and known gaps

 huggingface.co/datasets/voilaj/swiss-caselaw

Parquet mirror of the corpus

 get_statistics

The same figures via MCP and REST