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Federal Constitutional Court Statistics
Aggregate patterns across the published, reasoned judgments of the Federal Constitutional Court: caseload composition, the statutes cited most often, who is most often named as respondent, and how judgment volume and bench composition have moved over time.
Every figure below is an aggregate computed across the whole set. No individual judgment, litigant, or case specific detail is reported here, and no judgment is quoted or summarised. To read case specific summaries and holdings, use the Case Law Database. To see who is currently sitting on this court, use Court Benches and Statistics.
Data scope: these figures are computed from the reasoned written judgments the Federal Constitutional Court has published on its public portal at www.fccp.gov.pk. The set covers 2025 to 2026 and holds 90+ reported judgments.
These are not all the matters the Federal Constitutional Court handles. Courts dispose of a large volume of cases through procedural orders, adjournments, dismissals for non prosecution, withdrawals and short orders that are never authored as detailed written judgments. Only the reasoned judgments approved for publication are counted here.
What you are reading is the published precedent surface, not the total caseload. It is the same body of material an advocate would consult by hand when researching a matter, aggregated.
Caseload composition by legal division
Most cited statutes
Most frequent respondents
This court exercises no original constitutional jurisdiction of the kind that produces a standing government respondent, so there is no meaningful ranking to report.
Judgment volume by year
This set spans 2025 to 2026, which is too short a run to read as a trend. A chart over two years would describe when the court started publishing rather than how its work moved.
Methodology. Judgments are captured from each court's own public portal. Statute names are canonicalised across stylistic variants before counting, so one Act cited six different ways counts as one Act. Constitutional article and Penal Code section frequencies are read from the cited statutes recorded against each judgment. Time from filing to judgment is the judgment year minus the filing year taken from the case number, a proxy that does not reflect docket level dates. Bench size is read from the bench recorded on each judgment, and judgments whose bench could not be identified are excluded from that percentage rather than counted as single judge. Recent years reflect publishing lag and are excluded from any trend statement. Figures last computed 2026-09-12.
