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Notstand

Quality:

Necessity defence - either a possible justification or an exculpation for breaking the law. Article “Notstand” in German Wikipedia has 28.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 14 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (German) language version.

Since the creation of article “Notstand”, its content was written by 95 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 581 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 317 times in German Wikipedia and cited 1725 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (German): #4108 in December 2003
  • Global: #16275 in May 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (German): #156 in March 2020
  • Global: #11263 in March 2020

There are 28 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Necessity (criminal law)
37.5765
2Japanese (ja)
緊急避難
34.4313
3Russian (ru)
Крайняя необходимость
31.3243
4German (de)
Notstand
28.5837
5Korean (ko)
긴급피난
28.2619
6Chinese (zh)
緊急避難
26.7674
7Swedish (sv)
Nödrätt
22.7101
8Ukrainian (uk)
Крайня необхідність
22.0622
9Kazakh (kk)
Аса қажеттілік
21.4698
10Polish (pl)
Stan wyższej konieczności
17.7399
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Notstand" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1Japanese (ja)
緊急避難
807 650
2German (de)
Notstand
742 316
3Spanish (es)
Estado de necesidad
575 688
4Russian (ru)
Крайняя необходимость
430 135
5English (en)
Necessity (criminal law)
283 666
6Polish (pl)
Stan wyższej konieczności
233 021
7Portuguese (pt)
Estado de necessidade
214 235
8Italian (it)
Stato di necessità
201 056
9Ukrainian (uk)
Крайня необхідність
151 030
10Chinese (zh)
緊急避難
127 979
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Notstand" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Necessity (criminal law)
2 844
2Japanese (ja)
緊急避難
2 787
3Russian (ru)
Крайняя необходимость
760
4German (de)
Notstand
733
5Chinese (zh)
緊急避難
418
6Italian (it)
Stato di necessità
339
7Polish (pl)
Stan wyższej konieczności
294
8Spanish (es)
Estado de necesidad
288
9Czech (cs)
Krajní nouze
287
10Korean (ko)
긴급피난
270
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Notstand" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Necessity (criminal law)
115
2German (de)
Notstand
95
3Japanese (ja)
緊急避難
45
4Italian (it)
Stato di necessità
37
5Chinese (zh)
緊急避難
34
6Spanish (es)
Estado de necesidad
26
7Norwegian (no)
Nødrett
22
8Polish (pl)
Stan wyższej konieczności
21
9Portuguese (pt)
Estado de necessidade
18
10Russian (ru)
Крайняя необходимость
18
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Notstand" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Portuguese (pt)
Estado de necessidade
2
2Korean (ko)
긴급피난
1
3Polish (pl)
Stan wyższej konieczności
1
4Belarusian (be)
Крайняя неабходнасць
0
5Czech (cs)
Krajní nouze
0
6Danish (da)
Nødret
0
7German (de)
Notstand
0
8English (en)
Necessity (criminal law)
0
9Esperanto (eo)
Sufiĉa kondiĉo
0
10Spanish (es)
Estado de necesidad
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Notstand" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1German (de)
Notstand
317
2Japanese (ja)
緊急避難
250
3English (en)
Necessity (criminal law)
238
4Chinese (zh)
緊急避難
158
5Korean (ko)
긴급피난
146
6Russian (ru)
Крайняя необходимость
110
7Portuguese (pt)
Estado de necessidade
84
8Italian (it)
Stato di necessità
78
9Ukrainian (uk)
Крайня необхідність
62
10Turkish (tr)
Zorunluluk
56
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
beBelarusian
Крайняя неабходнасць
csCzech
Krajní nouze
daDanish
Nødret
deGerman
Notstand
enEnglish
Necessity (criminal law)
eoEsperanto
Sufiĉa kondiĉo
esSpanish
Estado de necesidad
fiFinnish
Pakkotila
frFrench
Principe de nécessité
hyArmenian
Ծայրահեղ անհրաժեշտություն
itItalian
Stato di necessità
jaJapanese
緊急避難
kkKazakh
Аса қажеттілік
koKorean
긴급피난
nlDutch
Noodzakelijkheid
noNorwegian
Nødrett
plPolish
Stan wyższej konieczności
ptPortuguese
Estado de necessidade
ruRussian
Крайняя необходимость
simpleSimple English
Necessary
skSlovak
Krajná núdza
slSlovenian
Skrajna sila
srSerbian
Крајња нужда
svSwedish
Nödrätt
trTurkish
Zorunluluk
ukUkrainian
Крайня необхідність
zhChinese
緊急避難
zhminnanMin Nan
Kín-kip pī-lān

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank German:
#156
03.2020
Global:
#11263
03.2020

AI rank trends

Best Rank German:
#4108
12.2003
Global:
#16275
05.2012

Local popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Necessity defence from Wikipedia articles about Timothy McVeigh, 2011 Norway attacks, Murder of Meredith Kercher, Justification and Plank of Carneades. Whereas reading the article about Necessity defence people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Right of self-defense, North by Northwest, Plank of Carneades, Good Samaritan law and Necessity in English law.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

simple: Necessary

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