Every public Supreme Court number comes from one published aggregate snapshot.

What this page covers

Supreme Court aggregate observability only: pending load, registered and unregistered treatment, last-month institution and disposal, current-year movement, and published trend points.

It is a Supreme Court module inside NyaayWatch, not a national all-courts summary alias and not a case-search surface.

What it does not do

It does not predict outcomes, judge judges, or imply direct comparability with High Court or district/subordinate metrics in one ranking layer.

When the source does not expose a trustworthy source snapshot timestamp, the page says so directly and shows capture time instead.

Directly sourced

Pending registered, pending unregistered, pending total, and the civil, criminal, or total institution and disposal counts come directly from the official Supreme Court NJDG aggregate dashboard.

NyaayWatch framing

NyaayWatch adds publication timestamps, freshness, methodology versioning, and an explicit rule for which date to show so the snapshot is citeable and auditable.

Backlog movement as share of pending load

Calculated as cases filed this month minus cases cleared this month, divided by pending cases. It gives a scale-aware view of whether the pending pile is growing or shrinking in the current publication.

Break-even clearances

The number of extra clearances needed in the current monthly accumulator to keep the Supreme Court backlog from growing. It is zero when clearances matched or exceeded filings.

10% reduction scenario

A scenario metric, not a prediction. It estimates the extra monthly clearances needed to reduce the pending load by 10% over 12 months while covering the current filing-clearance gap.

Civil-criminal imbalance

Compares the criminal share of pending cases with the criminal share of current monthly clearances. The result is a docket signal for inspection, not a cause or blame claim.

When Supreme Court NJDG exposes a source date

The page can show a source snapshot date directly.

When the source does not expose one

The page uses the captured page timestamp as referenceDateAt and labels it as captured_at instead of inventing a source date.

This is the current public Supreme Court posture.

Pending total

Pending total is a point-in-time stock — each published snapshot is one meaningful reading. The sparkline plots one dot per recent snapshot, in chronological order.

Cleared / 100 filed, disposed, and backlog change

The NJDG "instituted in last month" and "disposal in last month" fields are accumulators that reset at each calendar-month boundary (IST). The headline number on these tiles is the current month-to-date reading.

For the trend line we keep only finalized months: when we observe the accumulator drop between two consecutive captures, the earlier capture holds the last-known pre-reset totals for its month, and those become that month's finalized values. Months still in progress, or months where we lack captures on both sides of the boundary, are deliberately omitted from the sparkline.

This keeps each dot on the trend line directly comparable to the next. It also means the trend line will stay empty until at least two calendar-month boundaries have been observed in the capture history.