Top 20 Brazilian courts by new cases filed in a month · 🇧🇷 Brazil
Cases filed (casos novos) in one month, state, federal, labour and superior courts
Updated · new cases filed (in the month)
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Why these 20
Brazil's National Council of Justice (CNJ) publishes the case records of every court in the DataJud public API. We count the cases whose filing date (dataAjuizamento) falls in the month, per court. This counts new cases, not judgments or cases closed, and a court with a large backlog can rank low. Courts upload their records with a delay, so the month shown is three months back and its numbers still grow for a while (we recount every day). Electoral and military courts are left out (few cases). State courts of justice (TJ) take most civil and criminal cases, so São Paulo's TJSP leads by far.
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1
C
Court of Justice of São Paulo (TJSP)
364,671
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2
F
Federal Regional Court, Region 1, Brasília (TRF1) new
195,727
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3
C
Court of Justice of Bahia (TJBA) ▼1
192,533
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4
C
Court of Justice of Minas Gerais (TJMG) new
169,368
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5
C
Court of Justice of Rio Grande do Sul (TJRS) ▼2
161,630
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6
C
Court of Justice of Rio de Janeiro (TJRJ) ▼2
150,157
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7
F
Federal Regional Court, Region 5, Recife (TRF5) new
131,698
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8
C
Court of Justice of Santa Catarina (TJSC) ▼3
116,790
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9
F
Federal Regional Court, Region 4, Porto Alegre (TRF4) ▼3
107,634
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10
C
Court of Justice of Paraná (TJPR) ▼3
101,889
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11
F
Federal Regional Court, Region 3, São Paulo (TRF3) ▼3
95,042
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12
C
Court of Justice of Goiás (TJGO) ▼3
93,629
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13
R
Regional Labour Court, Region 2, São Paulo (TRT2) ▲4
69,687
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14
C
Court of Justice of Amazonas (TJAM) ▼4
68,725
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15
F
Federal Regional Court, Region 6, Belo Horizonte (TRF6) new
58,892
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16
C
Court of Justice of Mato Grosso (TJMT) new
58,045
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17
C
Court of Justice of Pernambuco (TJPE) ▼6
57,275
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18
C
Court of Justice of Ceará (TJCE) ▼6
57,194
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19
F
Federal Regional Court, Region 2, Rio de Janeiro (TRF2) ▼6
53,756
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20
C
Court of Justice of Maranhão (TJMA) ▼6
53,527
How it is measured
DataJud public API (api-publica.datajud.cnj.jus.br), one count query per court index on dataAjuizamento between the first and the last second of the month; the public key is read from the DataJud wiki on each run. 59 courts: STJ, TST, 27 state courts, 6 federal regional courts and 24 labour courts. A court that does not answer keeps its last count.
References
- DataJud: cases filed per court in a month, Conselho Nacional de Justiça (CNJ) (Public API of the CNJ (DataJud terms of use)). Checked 2026-10-20 06:33 UTC.
- DataJud public API (Conselho Nacional de Justiça), CNJ, cases filed in July 2026; 59 of 59 courts counted.
