Lexipedia in numbers

Every document, citation, vote and company in Lexipedia, counted. Recomputed every night. Figures as of October 20, 2026.

Overview

1,081,063 documents in 5 languages from 351 sources, joined by 35,225,875 citations.

Documents: 1.1M
Court decisions: 843.1K
Laws and ordinances: 29.9K
Citations: 35.2M
Companies: 1.1M
Parliamentary ballots: 5.1M

Articles: 7.8M
Passages: 34.2M
Sources: 351
Courts and authorities: 348
Popular votes: 710
Database size: 163 GB

Through time

2025 is the busiest complete year so far, with 51,637 documents. The oldest dated document is from 1850. 35,828 documents carry no date and are left out.

Where it comes from

Vaud contributes the most cantonal documents: 108,484. Click a canton to browse its sources. 50% of all documents are federal, 50% cantonal and 0.2% municipal.

Show as a table

Canton	Court decisions	Legislation	Circulars	Total
Vaud	105,392	2,246	114	108,484
Zurich	103,720	2,036	491	106,247
Geneva	96,650	1,121	180	97,951
Ticino	58,842	780	83	59,705
Bern	20,672	1,217	678	22,567
Graubünden	14,938	591	523	16,052
Fribourg	14,669	1,137	110	15,916
St. Gallen	14,062	1,275	345	15,682
Aargau	12,034	761	379	13,174
Basel-Stadt	10,706	1,260	128	12,094
Solothurn	9,511	1,491	238	11,240
Basel-Landschaft	9,608	983	3	10,594
Neuchâtel	7,620	833	188	8,641
Schwyz	5,621	426	138	6,185
Valais	4,639	757	445	5,841
Lucerne	4,056	971	742	5,769
Zug	4,168	828	510	5,506
Thurgau	2,349	520	1,923	4,792
Appenzell Ausserrhoden	2,538	426	67	3,031
Obwalden	2,205	600	55	2,860
Jura	1,159	860	115	2,134
Glarus	719	632	87	1,438
Schaffhausen	696	438	292	1,426
Nidwalden	719	437	72	1,228
Uri	427	378	30	835
Appenzell Innerrhoden	61	494	80	635

The busiest courts

The Swiss Federal Supreme Court alone accounts for 25% of all decisions in the corpus.

Decisions per year

In 2025, cantonal courts published 28,998 decisions and federal courts 13,550.

In which languages

45% of all texts are in German, 37% in French and 17% in Italian.

How many languages a document comes in

164,070 documents exist in three languages or more, almost all of them federal.

The citation graph

35,225,875 citations were read in the texts; 88% of them lead to a document in the corpus.

Most cited documents

The Bundesgerichtsgesetz is cited by 530,177 documents, more than any other.

Most cited articles

Art. 42 BGG is cited by 233,740 documents.

Article	Law	Citing documents
Art. 42	BGG	233,740
Art. 100	BGG	165,494
Art. 66	BGG	124,589
Art. 90	BGG	117,030
Art. 29	Cst.	90,153
Art. 113	BGG	89,048
Art. 63	APA	87,572
Art. 82	BGG	83,419
Art. 52	APA	82,788
Art. 83	BGG	72,732
Art. 106	BGG	72,142
Art. 72	BGG	71,272
Art. 33	VGG	70,190
Art. 95	BGG	68,075
Art. 61	ATSG	67,578

Which court cites which law

Each band is the number of a court's decisions that cite a law. The strongest: the Swiss Federal Supreme Court citing the Bundesgerichtsgesetz in 146,103 decisions.

The core of the network

The 160 most cited documents. Each circle is sized by how often it is cited; a line joins two when one cites the other. Click one to open it.

LegislationDecisions

Citations per decision

A decision from 2025 cites 51.3 documents on average; in 1950 it was 12.8.

Parliament

The councils have recorded 27,830 votes since 2003. The busiest year was 2024, with 2,384.

How united the groups vote

In the current legislature, members of the Sozialdemokratische Fraktion voted with their group's majority 98% of the time, more than any other group.

Popular votes

Of 710 federal votes since 1848, 331 were accepted.

Turnout

Average turnout per decade.

The latest vote

«Food Initiative», voted on September 27, 2026: rejected with 27.5% yes. 2 of 2,105 municipalities said yes. Click the map to open the vote.

Where Switzerland says yes

Over the last ten years, Buseno voted yes most readily, at 53% on average; Unteriberg least, at 36%. Colors are centered on the median municipality, at 46.8%.

Recent votes

Date	Vote	Yes share	Result
September 27, 2026	«Food Initiative»	27.5%	Rejected
September 27, 2026	Neutrality Initiative	29.8%	Rejected
June 14, 2026	Amendment to the Civilian Service Act	52.5%	Accepted
June 14, 2026	«Sustainability initiative» (Limiting the national population)	45.2%	Rejected
March 8, 2026	Act on Individual Taxation	54.3%	Accepted
March 8, 2026	Climate Fund Initiative	29.3%	Rejected
March 8, 2026	Initiative «200 francs is enough!» (fees for public broadcasting)	38%	Rejected
March 8, 2026	Tie-breaker question on the Cash Initiative and the counter-proposal	37.4%	Rejected
March 8, 2026	Decree on the Swiss currency and cash supply	73.4%	Accepted
March 8, 2026	Initiative «Cash is Freedom»	45.6%	Rejected
November 30, 2025	Initiative «For a social climate policy (Initiative for a Future)»	21.7%	Rejected
November 30, 2025	Service Citoyen Initiative	15.9%	Rejected

The commercial register

750,636 companies are active, 47,490 in liquidation and 295,223 have been struck off.

Zürich is the seat of 47,509 active companies, more than any other municipality.

Legal forms

The most common legal form is the Limited liability company, with 267,439 active entities. Click one to list them.

Registered and struck off

In 2025, 56,043 entities were entered in the register and 33,898 struck off. 402,223 entries carry no registration date and are left out.

Notices in the Gazette of Commerce

21,349 notices were published in September 2026.

Who sits on the most boards

Jean-Bernard Buchs holds 302 active positions in the register.

Name	Place	Positions
Jean-Bernard Buchs	Genève	302
Reto Grossmann	Nuglar (Nuglar-St. Pantaleon)	220
Ummahan Aysun Sapherson	Genève	219
Daniel Brüllmann	Wettingen	204
Matthias Jäger	Oberrieden	200
Martin Strub	Hägendorf	198
Xénia Jelsch	Basilea	197
Urs Fäs	Schönenwerd	197
Jean Michel Roten	Laufen	195
Sandro Lentini	Bellevue	193
Oliver Müller	Rapperswil-Jona	193
Tatiana Hilton	Corsier GE	185
Adrian Escher	Erlinsbach	153
David Guffroy	Genève	142
Dominik Riepl	Winterthur	141

The oldest active entries

Name	Registered
Banque Cantonale Vaudoise Public-law institution · Lausanne	January 6, 1883
Banque Lombard Odier & Cie SA Corporation · Bellevue	January 11, 1883
St.Galler Kantonalbank AG Corporation · St. Gallen	January 14, 1883
Bank SLM AG Corporation · Münsingen	January 17, 1883
Basellandschaftliche Kantonalbank Public-law institution · Liestal	January 23, 1883
Schaffhauser Kantonalbank Public-law institution · Schaffhausen	February 2, 1883
Aktiengesellschaft für die Neue Zürcher Zeitung Corporation · Zürich	February 2, 1883
Hypothekarbank Lenzburg AG Corporation · Lenzburg	February 7, 1883
Industrie- und Handelskammer St. Gallen-Appenzell Association · St. Gallen	February 8, 1883
Reishauer Beteiligungen AG Corporation · Wallisellen	February 14, 1883

The largest share capital

Name	Capital
Zürcher Kantonalbank Public-law institution · Zürich	CHF 3.4B
Eurofima Europäische Gesellschaft für die Finanzierung von Eisenbahnmaterial Corporation · Basel	CHF 2.8B
Pfandbriefzentrale der schweizerischen Kantonalbanken AG Corporation · Zürich	CHF 2.8B
ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd Corporation · Zürich	CHF 2.8B
Coca-Cola HBC AG Corporation · Steinhausen	CHF 2.5B
Cemex Innovation Holding AG Corporation · Zug	CHF 2.3B
Procter & Gamble International Sàrl Limited liability company · Petit-Lancy	CHF 2.0B
PostFinance AG Corporation · Bern	CHF 2.0B
Willis Towers Watson Holdings (Switzerland) GmbH Limited liability company · Zug	CHF 1.8B
Glenmark Holding SA Corporation · Neuchâtel	CHF 1.6B

Lawyers in the cantonal bar registers

Zurich has the most registered lawyers: 4,275.

Lexipedia itself

So far, 4,582 searches, 312 questions to Lexi and 3,898 tool calls over MCP. Counts only: nothing here says who.

Per week, since the first search.

How these figures are made

Every section is recomputed from the corpus each night, once the pipeline has finished. A document counts once however many languages it comes in; a citation counts once for each place it appears in a text, and a ranking counts citing documents. Vote shares are the Federal Statistical Office's.