Seaduse ees

Before the Law - 1915 short story by Franz Kafka. This book is the 2935^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 421^st most popular book in Estonian Wikipedia. Article “Seaduse ees” in Estonian Wikipedia has 4.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 2 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Seaduse ees”, its content was written by 2 registered users of Estonian Wikipedia and edited by 275 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Before the Law is on the 421^st place in local ranking of books in Estonian Wikipedia and on the 2935^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 2 times in Estonian Wikipedia and cited 480 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Estonian): #4410 in March 2009
• Global: #35907 in March 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Estonian): #6882 in December 2015
• 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	German (de) Vor dem Gesetz		46.3286
2	English (en) Before the Law		28.1781
3	Hebrew (he) לפני החוק		23.3898
4	French (fr) Devant la Loi		16.863
5	Persian (fa) جلوی قانون		16.0533
6	Serbian (sr) Пред законом		14.4062
7	Italian (it) Davanti alla legge (Kafka)		10.5691
8	Spanish (es) Ante la ley		10.564
9	Arabic (ar) أمام القانون		9.7957
10	Swedish (sv) Framför lagen		8.7529

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Seaduse ees" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Vor dem Gesetz		815 090
2	English (en) Before the Law		637 034
3	Spanish (es) Ante la ley		142 628
4	Italian (it) Davanti alla legge (Kafka)		114 699
5	French (fr) Devant la Loi		68 686
6	Hebrew (he) לפני החוק		41 341
7	Persian (fa) جلوی قانون		16 767
8	Romanian (ro) În fața legii		9 051
9	Arabic (ar) أمام القانون		8 038
10	Estonian (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.

The most popular language versions of the article "Seaduse ees" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Before the Law		2 595
2	German (de) Vor dem Gesetz		1 632
3	Spanish (es) Ante la ley		759
4	Italian (it) Davanti alla legge (Kafka)		402
5	French (fr) Devant la Loi		385
6	Hebrew (he) לפני החוק		238
7	Persian (fa) جلوی قانون		62
8	Romanian (ro) În fața legii		42
9	Serbian (sr) Пред законом		39
10	Arabic (ar) أمام القانون		26

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

Language versions of the article "Seaduse ees" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Vor dem Gesetz		109
2	English (en) Before the Law		70
3	Hebrew (he) לפני החוק		25
4	Spanish (es) Ante la ley		18
5	French (fr) Devant la Loi		17
6	Italian (it) Davanti alla legge (Kafka)		8
7	Persian (fa) جلوی قانون		7
8	Latin (la) Vor dem Gesetz		5
9	Arabic (ar) أمام القانون		3
10	Romanian (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.

Language versions of the article "Seaduse ees" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Hebrew (he) לפני החוק		2
2	English (en) Before the Law		1
3	Arabic (ar) أمام القانون		0
4	German (de) Vor dem Gesetz		0
5	Esperanto (eo) Vor dem Gesetz		0
6	Spanish (es) Ante la ley		0
7	Estonian (et) Seaduse ees		0
8	Persian (fa) جلوی قانون		0
9	French (fr) Devant la Loi		0
10	Italian (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.

Language versions of the article "Seaduse ees" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	German (de) Vor dem Gesetz		110
2	English (en) Before the Law		109
3	Arabic (ar) أمام القانون		66
4	French (fr) Devant la Loi		36
5	Italian (it) Davanti alla legge (Kafka)		35
6	Persian (fa) جلوی قانون		32
7	Hebrew (he) לפני החוק		30
8	Serbian (sr) Пред законом		20
9	Romanian (ro) În fața legii		19
10	Spanish (es) Ante la ley		6

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic أمام القانون
de	German Vor dem Gesetz
en	English Before the Law
eo	Esperanto Vor dem Gesetz
es	Spanish Ante la ley
et	Estonian Seaduse ees
fa	Persian جلوی قانون
fr	French Devant la Loi
he	Hebrew לפני החוק
it	Italian Davanti alla legge (Kafka)
la	Latin Vor dem Gesetz
ro	Romanian În fața legii
sh	Serbo-Croatian Vor dem Gesetz
sr	Serbian Пред законом
sv	Swedish Framför lagen

Best Rank

Estonian: #6882 12.2015

Global: #114923 11.2008

Best Rank

Estonian: #4410 03.2009

Global: #35907 03.2005

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