Common law

Quality:

Common law - law created by judicial precedent. Article “Common law” in English Wikipedia has 83.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 136 references and 33 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.39 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 7353^rd most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 6027^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9966^th most popular in all topics.

In June 2026 the article “Common law” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Common law”, its content was written by 1056 registered users of English Wikipedia (6027^th place) and edited by 2439 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 4692 times in English Wikipedia (5446^th place) and cited 12308 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #463 in December 2002
• Global: #1324 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2909 in February 2012
• Global: #5672 in October 2009

There are 46 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, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

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

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Common law		83.356
2	Armenian (hy) Ընդհանուր իրավունք		80.6346
3	Spanish (es) Derecho inglés		78.4551
4	Portuguese (pt) Common law		64.9679
5	Chinese (zh) 普通法系		61.9934
6	Romanian (ro) Drept comun (sistem juridic)		45.6598
7	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Anglosaksonsko pravo		36.8076
8	Catalan (ca) Dret anglosaxó		36.4157
9	Arabic (ar) قانون مشترك		36.0774
10	Turkish (tr) Ortak hukuk		35.4674

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Common law		17 410 355
2	Italian (it) Common law		1 427 882
3	French (fr) Common law		1 328 091
4	Chinese (zh) 普通法系		1 315 666
5	German (de) Common Law		980 717
6	Japanese (ja) コモン・ロー		964 136
7	Portuguese (pt) Common law		872 357
8	Polish (pl) Common law		721 634
9	Russian (ru) Общее право		533 557
10	Thai (th) คอมมอนลอว์		338 939

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Common law		27 129
2	Chinese (zh) 普通法系		3 096
3	Japanese (ja) コモン・ロー		2 026
4	French (fr) Common law		1 948
5	Persian (fa) کامن لا		1 762
6	German (de) Common Law		1 542
7	Italian (it) Common law		1 365
8	Polish (pl) Common law		1 123
9	Russian (ru) Общее право		767
10	Portuguese (pt) Common law		611

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Common law		1 056
2	Italian (it) Common law		139
3	French (fr) Common law		123
4	Chinese (zh) 普通法系		122
5	German (de) Common Law		119
6	Spanish (es) Derecho inglés		91
7	Japanese (ja) コモン・ロー		75
8	Russian (ru) Общее право		62
9	Hebrew (he) המשפט המקובל		61
10	Dutch (nl) Common law		52

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Common law		4
2	Serbian (sr) Англосаксонско право		2
3	Arabic (ar) قانون مشترك		1
4	Esperanto (eo) Anglasaksa juro		1
5	French (fr) Common law		1
6	Indonesian (id) Hukum umum		1
7	Romanian (ro) Drept comun (sistem juridic)		1
8	Vietnamese (vi) Thông luật		1
9	Bulgarian (bg) Общо право		0
10	Catalan (ca) Dret anglosaxó		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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