Statistics
How many judgments each Indian High Court has published: the count, court by court
On 3 October 2026 Pundora's corpus held 1,80,66,696 judgments of the Supreme Court and 25 High Courts, 1,79,62,823 of them with full text. This is the count, court by court and year by year, with how it was made.
Court by court
| Court | Judgments held | With full text | Record runs | Decided 2021 to 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| High Court of Punjab and Haryana | 18,64,848 | 18,13,966 | 2006 to 2026 | 7,50,075 |
| Bombay High Court | 17,64,749 | 17,63,703 | 2002 to 2026 | 4,70,566 |
| Patna High Court | 17,08,800 | 17,08,466 | 2008 to 2026 | 6,07,026 |
| Madras High Court | 17,03,949 | 16,90,752 | 2002 to 2026 | 10,10,136 |
| Allahabad High Court | 16,96,598 | 16,96,597 | 2017 to 2026 | 11,04,343 |
| High Court of Rajasthan | 10,98,804 | 10,98,206 | 2004 to 2026 | 4,58,566 |
| High Court for the State of Telangana | 10,46,258 | 10,38,149 | 1996 to 2026 | 2,81,835 |
| High Court of Kerala | 10,36,138 | 10,35,812 | 2005 to 2025 | 2,68,478 |
| High Court of Karnataka | 9,74,808 | 9,74,083 | 1998 to 2026 | 4,73,704 |
| High Court of Orissa | 8,03,993 | 7,92,003 | 2005 to 2026 | 5,42,237 |
| High Court of Madhya Pradesh | 6,50,516 | 6,49,710 | 2010 to 2026 | 2,91,047 |
| High Court of Chhattisgarh | 5,76,332 | 5,75,710 | 2000 to 2026 | 2,56,238 |
| High Court of Jharkhand | 4,65,399 | 4,65,370 | 2012 to 2026 | 2,45,724 |
| Calcutta High Court | 4,37,262 | 4,35,480 | 2019 to 2026 | 4,27,250 |
| High Court of Gujarat | 4,23,956 | 4,23,950 | 1993 to 2026 | 1,43,180 |
| High Court of Delhi | 4,17,777 | 4,17,546 | 2003 to 2026 | 1,61,456 |
| Gauhati High Court | 3,26,583 | 3,21,514 | 2006 to 2026 | 1,46,541 |
| High Court of Andhra Pradesh | 3,13,108 | 3,11,173 | 2019 to 2026 | 2,75,621 |
| High Court of Himachal Pradesh | 2,96,198 | 2,95,667 | 2006 to 2026 | 1,47,245 |
| High Court of Uttarakhand | 2,37,289 | 2,34,263 | 2000 to 2026 | 85,210 |
| High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh | 1,16,451 | 1,13,924 | 2007 to 2026 | 82,193 |
| Supreme Court of India | 38,358 | 38,358 | 1950 to 2026 | 4,472 |
| High Court of Tripura | 33,943 | 33,936 | 2013 to 2026 | 12,333 |
| High Court of Manipur | 19,080 | 19,014 | 2017 to 2026 | 13,030 |
| High Court of Meghalaya | 12,990 | 12,966 | 2011 to 2026 | 8,087 |
| High Court of Sikkim | 2,456 | 2,452 | 2003 to 2026 | 904 |
| Judgments obtained under licence (various courts) | 53 | 53 | 2026 to 2026 | 48 |
| All | 1,80,66,696 | 1,79,62,823 | 1950 to 2026 | 82,67,545 |
"Record runs" is the first year in which the open archive holds at least 25 of that court's judgments, to the last year held. A court whose record begins in 2010 has older judgments; they are not in the courts' open electronic archive, so they are not here.
Decade by decade
| Decade | Judgments held |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 1,048 |
| 1960s | 3,171 |
| 1970s | 2,931 |
| 1980s | 2,713 |
| 1990s | 29,892 |
| 2000s | 11,06,197 |
| 2010s | 78,15,905 |
| 2020s | 91,04,700 |
Year by year, since 2000
| Year | Judgments | |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 10,025 | |
| 2001 | 9,913 | |
| 2002 | 10,069 | |
| 2003 | 15,083 | |
| 2004 | 50,389 | |
| 2005 | 1,01,192 | |
| 2006 | 1,23,055 | |
| 2007 | 1,89,071 | |
| 2008 | 2,63,021 | |
| 2009 | 3,34,379 | |
| 2010 | 4,06,532 | |
| 2011 | 4,69,493 | |
| 2012 | 5,53,859 | |
| 2013 | 5,99,198 | |
| 2014 | 6,71,110 | |
| 2015 | 7,96,610 | |
| 2016 | 8,61,684 | |
| 2017 | 8,71,983 | |
| 2018 | 12,47,891 | |
| 2019 | 13,37,545 | |
| 2020 | 8,37,155 | |
| 2021 | 12,12,810 | |
| 2022 | 17,28,430 | |
| 2023 | 18,01,207 | |
| 2024 | 13,80,026 | |
| 2025 | 14,33,995 | |
| 2026 | 7,11,077 |
2026 is a part year, counted to 2026-10-03.
How this was counted, and what it does not show
- One count, one day. A single counting query over Pundora's judgment table on 2026-10-03, grouped by court and by the year of the decision date. The corpus is topped up every night, so tomorrow's count is larger.
- The source is the courts' own open archive. Pundora loads what the High Courts and the Supreme Court publish electronically. A court that has digitised only its recent years shows only those years. These are counts of what is published, not of what each court decided.
- Every order is a row. The archive holds interim orders and final judgments alike; a court that uploads every daily order shows a larger number than one that uploads judgments only. The counts are not a measure of a court's workload or output.
- 139 rows carry a decision date outside 1950 to 2026 (a typing error in the court's own record, such as the year 3021). They are in the court totals and left out of the year tables.
- Tribunals and district courts are not held, and are not in these numbers.
Questions advocates ask
How many judgments has the Supreme Court of India published?
Pundora holds 38,358 Supreme Court judgments from 1950 to 2026, every distinct English-language judgment file in the Court's open archive on 2026-10-03.
Which High Court has the most judgments online?
In the courts' open archive as Pundora holds it on 2026-10-03: the High Court of Punjab and Haryana (18,64,848), then the Bombay High Court (17,64,749) and the Patna High Court (17,08,800). The archive counts every uploaded order, so this measures what is published, not what was decided.
How many Indian High Court judgments are available in total?
1,80,28,338 from 25 High Courts in Pundora's corpus on 2026-10-03, 1,79,62,823 of all judgments held with full text.