ECHR Analytics Dashboard

Key Statistics

Summary metrics across the full ECHR case corpus — case counts, violation rates, coverage of metadata fields, and corpus composition at a glance.

Cases by Year

Number of ECHR judgments delivered per calendar year since the Court's inception, illustrating the steady growth of the Strasbourg docket over six decades.

Violation Rate by Year (%)

Percentage of cases with at least one violation finding in each calendar year. Tracks structural shifts in the Court's adjudicative outcomes and reveals periods of systemic non-compliance by respondent states.

Outcomes by Year

Annual breakdown of case outcomes — violation only, non-violation only, mixed findings, and no finding — showing how the Court's caseload composition has evolved over time.

Article Violation Rates

Proportion of cases resulting in a violation finding per Convention article (among cases where the article was invoked), highlighting which rights are most frequently found to have been breached.

Most Cited Convention Articles

Raw frequency of article invocations across the corpus, showing which Convention provisions are most often pleaded before the Court — regardless of outcome.

Article Outcome Counts

Side-by-side violation and non-violation counts for each Convention article, providing an absolute measure of the Court's jurisprudential output per protected right.

Most Cited Strasbourg Precedents

The judgments most frequently cited across the corpus, reflecting the landmark cases that have most profoundly shaped ECHR jurisprudence and the reasoning patterns of the Court.

Cases by Country

Number of ECHR judgments by respondent state, identifying which countries face the highest litigation volumes before the Court and where systemic human rights issues are most prevalent.

Violation Rate by Country 🔗

Proportion of cases resulting in at least one violation finding per respondent state (top 25 by caseload, minimum 10 cases). Normalises raw case counts to reveal which states have the highest per-case breach rates.

State Outcome Table 🔗

Breakdown of outcomes (Violation only, Non-violation only, Mixed, No finding) and violation rate for each respondent state with at least 5 cases. Top 20 shown — sorted by total caseload.

Country Comparison 🔗

Compare caseload trends and most frequently violated articles across up to four respondent states. Pre-populated with the four highest-volume states — change any dropdown to update the charts.

HUDOC Thesaurus Topics 🔗

Distribution of HUDOC thesaurus keywords across all judgments. These controlled-vocabulary tags are assigned by the Court's registry and capture the legal themes, Convention articles, and procedural aspects of each case (98.2% coverage).

Topic Trends Over Time 🔗

Annual frequency of the five most common thesaurus topics, tracking how the Court's docket composition has shifted across core Convention rights over the decades.

Top Topics by Country 🔗

Select a respondent state to see which thesaurus topics dominate its caseload. Reveals which legal issues are most litigated in each country.

Topic Co-occurrence 🔗

Most frequently co-occurring thesaurus topic pairs, showing which legal themes tend to appear together in the same case. Reveals structural relationships between Convention rights in the Court's jurisprudence.

Conclusion Clause Breakdown 🔗

Distribution of structured conclusion clauses across all judgments. Each case conclusion is split into individual clauses (violation finding, damages, preliminary objections, etc.), showing how the Court's dispositive decisions break down in aggregate.

Conclusion Outcome Trends 🔗

Annual trends in key conclusion outcomes: violation findings, no-violation findings, financial awards granted, and inadmissibility declarations. Tracks how the Court's dispositive patterns have evolved over time.

Preliminary Objections 🔗

Outcome of preliminary objections raised by respondent states. Shows the proportion rejected, accepted, and joined to the merits — reflecting how often procedural barriers succeed in preventing substantive examination.

Just Satisfaction Overview 🔗

Overview of how the Court handles just satisfaction (Article 41) claims. Shows the disposition of pecuniary damages, non-pecuniary damages, and costs and expenses claims across the entire corpus.

Landmark Cases by Citation Count 🔗

The 30 most-cited cases in the ECHR citation network (by in-degree). These are the judgments most frequently relied upon by later decisions, representing the backbone of Strasbourg jurisprudence (Fowler et al. 2007).

Citation Distribution 🔗

Distribution of incoming citation counts across all cases. A high Gini coefficient indicates extreme citation concentration — a small fraction of landmark cases attract a disproportionate share of all citations (Leitão et al. 2019).

Citation Age Distribution 🔗

How old are the precedents the Court cites? Shows the time gap (in years) between citing and cited judgments. A short average age suggests the Court favours recent authority; longer tails reveal enduring foundational precedents (Lupu & Voeten 2012).

Cross-Article Citation Heatmap 🔗

How often cases involving one Convention article cite cases involving another article. Strong off-diagonal values reveal "polymorph principles" — legal concepts that bridge multiple rights (Olsen & Esmark 2019). Matrix shows the top 12 articles by caseload.

Cross-State Influence & Self-Citation 🔗

Which respondent states produce the most-cited case law? Self-citation rate measures how often the Court cites its own prior decisions against the same state — high rates suggest recurring systemic issues (Derlen & Lindholm 2017).

Network Importance (PageRank & Betweenness) 🔗

PageRank measures a case's authority by weighing citations from other highly-cited cases (Google-style recursive prestige). Betweenness centrality identifies cases that serve as "bridges" between different clusters of jurisprudence — gatekeepers of legal reasoning (Fowler et al. 2007).

Case Duration

Distribution of time from application lodging to final judgment, reflecting the Court's processing efficiency and the impact of backlog-reduction reforms over time.

Judgment Types

Structural breakdown of the corpus by chamber composition, ECHR importance classification, outcome category, procedural versus substantive aspects, and originating body.

Inadmissibility Grounds

The most frequently cited grounds for declaring applications inadmissible, showing the procedural and substantive barriers applicants most often fail to satisfy before the Court.

Inadmissibility & Struck Out

Total counts of inadmissible cases and cases struck out of the list, providing an overview of the non-merits portion of the Court's caseload and the scope of early-stage filtering.

Citations by Country

Top respondent states in cases involving a given Convention article — select an article to see which countries are most litigated under that provision, with total case counts and violation counts side by side.

Top Keywords

Most frequently occurring thematic keywords across the corpus, offering a high-level map of the legal issues at the heart of ECHR jurisprudence.

Precedent Concentration

Cumulative citation share of the most-cited precedents, illustrating the degree to which ECHR reasoning relies on a concentrated set of landmark rulings. A steep curve signals high concentration.

Paragraph Distribution

Number of indexed paragraphs broken down by judgment section (Facts, Law, Operative provisions, etc.), reflecting how textual content is distributed across the structural parts of ECHR judgments.

Coverage Notes

Metadata completeness rates by field — respondent state, Convention articles, keywords, originating body — and notes on known gaps or limitations of the current corpus build.