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Court activity Published decisions per year, branch of jurisdiction, and court, across the corpus behind gesetze.nulegal.eu . Snapshot of 2026-07-27.
487,859
published decisions
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2026 is excluded from all charts on this page (partial year: data through 2026-07-23). Tables and CSV downloads include it.
View as table Year Decisions 1951 2 1952 4 1953 2 1954 1 1955 1 1956 1 1957 4 1958 5 1959 1 1960 2 1961 2 1962 1 1965 1 1966 2 1968 3 1969 2 1970 6 1971 7 1972 7 1973 8 1974 12 1975 10 1976 10 1977 23 1978 18 1979 43 1980 74 1981 67 1982 74 1983 62 1984 74 1985 63 1986 86 1987 92 1988 124 1989 131 1990 160 1991 226 1992 429 1993 514 1994 527 1995 605 1996 970 1997 1,490 1998 2,146 1999 2,669 2000 6,277 2001 7,283 2002 10,028 2003 11,409 2004 13,792 2005 15,278 2006 15,805 2007 16,144 2008 16,539 2009 16,882 2010 21,172 2011 23,672 2012 24,376 2013 21,438 2014 22,191 2015 22,228 2016 20,894 2017 23,154 2018 21,178 2019 15,459 2020 16,595 2021 16,612 2022 20,656 2023 25,673 2024 24,254 2025 21,306 2026 5,601
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Single-court explorer CourtBGH Oberverwaltungsgericht Nordrhein-Westfalen Oberlandesgericht Köln Oberlandesgericht Hamm BFH Oberverwaltungsgericht Berlin-Brandenburg Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf Europäischer Gerichtshof BVerwG BVerfG Landessozialgericht NRW Verwaltungsgericht Köln Verwaltungsgericht Düsseldorf Oberlandesgericht Frankfurt am Main BPatG BAG Niedersächsisches Oberverwaltungsgericht Landesarbeitsgericht Rheinland-Pfalz BSG Verwaltungsgericht Gelsenkirchen Kammergericht Landessozialgericht Berlin-Brandenburg Landgericht Düsseldorf Bayerischer Verwaltungsgerichtshof Verwaltungsgerichtshof Baden-Württemberg
The 25 courts with the most published decisions.
Every court links to its case-law listing on gesetze.nulegal.eu.
Court Branch Decisions First Last BGH Ordinary 64,760 2000 2026 Oberverwaltungsgericht Nordrhein-Westfalen Administrative 28,807 1971 2026 Oberlandesgericht Köln Ordinary 14,634 1971 2026 Oberlandesgericht Hamm Ordinary 13,221 1971 2026 BFH Fiscal 11,638 2010 2026 Oberverwaltungsgericht Berlin-Brandenburg Administrative 11,517 2010 2026 Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf Ordinary 10,958 1974 2026 Europäischer Gerichtshof European 10,843 2000 2026 BVerwG Administrative 10,387 1997 2026 BVerfG Constitutional 10,331 1951 2026 Landessozialgericht NRW Social 10,274 1986 2026 Verwaltungsgericht Köln Administrative 10,156 1977 2026 Verwaltungsgericht Düsseldorf Administrative 9,018 1999 2026 Oberlandesgericht Frankfurt am Main Ordinary 7,954 2010 2026 BPatG Patent 7,318 2010 2026 BAG Labour 7,247 2010 2026 Niedersächsisches Oberverwaltungsgericht Administrative 7,075 2000 2026 Landesarbeitsgericht Rheinland-Pfalz Labour 6,410 1999 2026 BSG Social 6,400 2010 2026 Verwaltungsgericht Gelsenkirchen Administrative 6,004 1985 2026 Kammergericht Ordinary 4,902 2010 2026 Landessozialgericht Berlin-Brandenburg Social 4,867 2010 2026 Landgericht Düsseldorf Ordinary 4,755 1970 2026 Bayerischer Verwaltungsgerichtshof Administrative 4,509 2018 2026 Verwaltungsgerichtshof Baden-Württemberg Administrative 4,333 2004 2026 Landesarbeitsgericht Köln Labour 4,285 1973 2026 Landgericht Köln Ordinary 4,079 2000 2026 Oberlandesgericht Celle Ordinary 3,965 2000 2026 Landesarbeitsgericht Hamm Labour 3,728 1977 2026 Verwaltungsgericht Aachen Administrative 3,288 1986 2026
Show all 922 Read this before citing These counts measure published decisions in our corpus, not judicial output. German courts publish only a fraction of their decisions, publication practice differs sharply by court and state, and coverage of the underlying sources begins at different times (the federal courts' portal is complete from roughly 2010; state coverage varies). Rising lines therefore mean more publication , not necessarily more litigation. Sources and extraction details are in the methodology .