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Caselaw
Court of Appeal · 1969–2026

How the Court of Appeal decides

Every Court of Appeal judgment in the corpus, read and checked against the original text. These are counts from that corpus, not estimates.

Data current to 7 October 2026 · 22,465 judgments

Quote-grounding: 78% of 110,631 scored briefs verified ≥90%

Court

Supreme CourtCourt of AppealHigh CourtELRCELCIndustrialKadhiMagistrateSmall Claims
Judgments
22,465
1969–2026
Authorities cited
120,803
9349 linked in-corpus
Allowed / granted
10,249
in whole or in part
Split benches
161
with a dissent or concurrence

Judgments per year

Court of Appeal judgments in the corpus, by year of delivery.

1196911972181976191977261978251979411980491981691982133198311219841421985951986881987831988411989411990191991391992561993701994121199518719963741997280199818719994072000349200128220021482003132200427920053382006459200730320084052009437201033320112242012494201382120149412015766201675220178272018100120198932020100520211203202215362023182820242131202518282026

How matters end

What happened to the decision below

The citator signal: a judgment that was reversed should not be cited as good law.

  • affirmed10817
  • reversed4614
  • set aside in part3339
  • not applicable1607
  • varied1559
  • appeal struck out470
  • remitted52

Every authority the Court of Appeal has cited

Every authority relied on more than once, ranked. Those in the corpus link to the brief; the count links to judgments mentioning it.

9,855 authorities

  1. 1Selle & Another v Associated Motor Boat Co. Ltd & Others1385×
  2. 2Leo Sila Mutiso v Rose Hellen Wangari Mwangi1098×
  3. 3Stanley Kangethe Kinyanjui v Tony Ketter & 5 Others1025×
  4. 4Shah v Mbogo950×
  5. 5Francis Karioko Muruatetu & Another v Republic900×
  6. 6Reliance Bank Ltd v Norlake Investments Ltd741×
  7. 7Okeno v Republic692×
  8. 8Peters v Sunday Post Limited593×
  9. 9Samuel Kamau Macharia & another v Kenya Commercial Bank Limited & 2 others539×
  10. 10Kenya Airways Limited v Aviation & Allied Workers Union Kenya & 3 others511×
  11. 11Nicholas Kiptoo Arap Korir Salat v Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission & 7 others510×
  12. 12Mwangi v Republic431×
  13. 13Nicholas Kiptoo Arap Korir Salat v IEBC & 7 Others431×
  14. 14Githunguri vs. Jimba Credit Corporation Ltd. (No. 2)407×
  15. 15Andrew Kiplagat Chemaringo v Paul Kipkorir Kibet392×
  16. 16Anjononi & Others v Republic379×
  17. 17Karani v Republic373×
  18. 18Wamunga v Republic373×
  19. 19Fakir Mohamed v Joseph Mugambi & 2 others327×
  20. 20R v Turnbull325×
  21. 21Murai v Wainaina (No 4)318×
  22. 22Njoroge v Republic313×
  23. 23Abok James Odera T/A A.J Odera & Associates v John Patrick Machira T/A Machira & Co. Advocates299×
  24. 24Trust Bank Limited and Another v. Investech Bank Limited and 3 Others296×
  25. 25Chemagong v Republic292×

Who dissents

Judges who wrote separately most often in the Court of Appeal.

Name variants in the source judgments are collapsed.

Bench size

How many judges sat on each judgment.

  • 1 judge
    4598
  • 2 judges
    101
  • 3 judges
    17675
  • 4 judges
    7
  • 5 judges
    57
  • 6 judges
    1
  • 7 judges
    6

Most-interpreted legislation

What it hears

judicial discretion13190civil procedure12589burden of proof8444statutory interpretation7110criminal procedure6595criminal law6470land law6085extension of time6071jurisdiction5553evidence4763stare decisis4138remedies3995

Counts are drawn from AI-extracted briefs of every Court of Appeal judgment on Kenya Law, each checked against the source text.

A note on accuracy. These pages are generated automatically from our AI-written case briefs and have not been checked by a lawyer. Case titles and citations come from Kenya Law; the counts, topics, propositions and “treatment” labels are derived from the briefs and can be incomplete or wrong. Use them as a research aid and always read the original judgment before relying on anything here. This is not legal advice.