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Before the Law

Quality:

Before the Law - 1915 short story by Franz Kafka. This book is the 2935th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “Before the Law” in English Wikipedia has 28.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 7 sections.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:
Global Wikipedia:
The 2935th most popular in books.

In June 2025 the article “Before the Law” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Before the Law”, its content was written by 70 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 275 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Before the Law is on the 2935th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 109 times in English Wikipedia and cited 480 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #70094 in September 2013
  • Global: #35907 in March 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #160072 in July 2021
  • Global: #114923 in November 2008

There are 15 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
1German (de)
Vor dem Gesetz
46.3286
2English (en)
Before the Law
28.1781
3Hebrew (he)
לפני החוק
23.3898
4French (fr)
Devant la Loi
16.863
5Persian (fa)
جلوی قانون
16.0533
6Serbian (sr)
Пред законом
14.4062
7Italian (it)
Davanti alla legge (Kafka)
10.5691
8Spanish (es)
Ante la ley
10.564
9Arabic (ar)
أمام القانون
9.7957
10Swedish (sv)
Framför lagen
8.7529
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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 "Before the Law" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1German (de)
Vor dem Gesetz
815 090
2English (en)
Before the Law
637 034
3Spanish (es)
Ante la ley
142 628
4Italian (it)
Davanti alla legge (Kafka)
114 699
5French (fr)
Devant la Loi
68 686
6Hebrew (he)
לפני החוק
41 341
7Persian (fa)
جلوی قانون
16 767
8Romanian (ro)
În fața legii
9 051
9Arabic (ar)
أمام القانون
8 038
10Estonian (et)
Seaduse ees
7 004
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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 "Before the Law" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Before the Law
2 595
2German (de)
Vor dem Gesetz
1 632
3Spanish (es)
Ante la ley
759
4Italian (it)
Davanti alla legge (Kafka)
402
5French (fr)
Devant la Loi
385
6Hebrew (he)
לפני החוק
238
7Persian (fa)
جلوی قانون
62
8Romanian (ro)
În fața legii
42
9Serbian (sr)
Пред законом
39
10Arabic (ar)
أمام القانون
26
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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 "Before the Law" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Vor dem Gesetz
109
2English (en)
Before the Law
70
3Hebrew (he)
לפני החוק
25
4Spanish (es)
Ante la ley
18
5French (fr)
Devant la Loi
17
6Italian (it)
Davanti alla legge (Kafka)
8
7Persian (fa)
جلوی قانون
7
8Latin (la)
Vor dem Gesetz
5
9Arabic (ar)
أمام القانون
3
10Romanian (ro)
În fața legii
3
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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 "Before the Law" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Hebrew (he)
לפני החוק
2
2English (en)
Before the Law
1
3Arabic (ar)
أمام القانون
0
4German (de)
Vor dem Gesetz
0
5Esperanto (eo)
Vor dem Gesetz
0
6Spanish (es)
Ante la ley
0
7Estonian (et)
Seaduse ees
0
8Persian (fa)
جلوی قانون
0
9French (fr)
Devant la Loi
0
10Italian (it)
Davanti alla legge (Kafka)
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 "Before the Law" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1German (de)
Vor dem Gesetz
110
2English (en)
Before the Law
109
3Arabic (ar)
أمام القانون
66
4French (fr)
Devant la Loi
36
5Italian (it)
Davanti alla legge (Kafka)
35
6Persian (fa)
جلوی قانون
32
7Hebrew (he)
לפני החוק
30
8Serbian (sr)
Пред законом
20
9Romanian (ro)
În fața legii
19
10Spanish (es)
Ante la ley
6
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
أمام القانون
deGerman
Vor dem Gesetz
enEnglish
Before the Law
eoEsperanto
Vor dem Gesetz
esSpanish
Ante la ley
etEstonian
Seaduse ees
faPersian
جلوی قانون
frFrench
Devant la Loi
heHebrew
לפני החוק
itItalian
Davanti alla legge (Kafka)
laLatin
Vor dem Gesetz
roRomanian
În fața legii
shSerbo-Croatian
Vor dem Gesetz
srSerbian
Пред законом
svSwedish
Framför lagen

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#160072
07.2021
Global:
#114923
11.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#70094
09.2013
Global:
#35907
03.2005

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Before the Law from Wikipedia articles about The Trial, Franz Kafka, The Trial, Franz Kafka bibliography and After Hours. Whereas reading the article about Before the Law people most often go to Wikipedia articles on The Trial, Franz Kafka, Parable, After Hours and The Trees.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

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