How the Small Claims decides
Every Small Claims judgment in the corpus, read and checked against the original text. These are counts from that corpus, not estimates.
Data current to 31 December 2026 · 342 judgments
Quote-grounding: 78% of 110,631 scored briefs verified ≥90%
- Judgments
- 342
- 2021–2026
- Authorities cited
- 976
- 63 linked in-corpus
- Allowed / granted
- 206
- in whole or in part
- Split benches
- 0
- with a dissent or concurrence
Judgments per year
Small Claims judgments in the corpus, by year of delivery.
How matters end
What happened to the decision below
The citator signal: a judgment that was reversed should not be cited as good law.
- set aside in part131
- affirmed91
- reversed73
- appeal struck out33
- not applicable13
- varied1
Every authority the Small Claims has cited
Every authority relied on more than once, ranked. Those in the corpus link to the brief; the count links to judgments mentioning it.
173 authorities
- 1Mumbi M'Nabea vs David M. Wachira68×
- 2Odinga Jacktone Ouma vs Moureen Achieng Odera20×
- 3Owners of the Motor Vessel "Lillian S" v Caltex Oil (Kenya) Ltd16×
- 4Mukisa Biscuit Manufacturing Co. Ltd v West End Distributors Ltd12×
- 5David Bagine v Martin Bundi11×
- 6Kenya Power & Lighting Company Limited v Julius Wambale & Another11×
- 7Eastern Produce Kenya Ltd v Rongai Workshop & Transporters Ltd9×
- 8Daniel Toroitich Arap Moi v Mwangi Stephen Muriithi & another8×
- 9National Bank of Kenya Ltd v Pipeplastic Samkolit (K) Ltd & another8×
- 10Katiba Institute & another v Attorney General & another7×
- 11National Bank of Kenya Ltd v Pipe Plastic Samkolit (K) Ltd7×
- 12Nkuene Dairy Farmer Co-operative Society Ltd -vs- Ngacha Ndeiya7×
- 13Pius Kimaiyo Langat v Co-operative Bank of Kenya Ltd7×
- 14Anne Wambui Ndiritu v Joseph Kiprono Ropkoi & Another6×
- 15Atanga v Rojeh6×
- 16Bonham Carter vs. Hyde Park Hotel Limited6×
- 17Gathaiya v Attorney General & 2 others; & 176 Interested Parties6×
- 18Hassan Ali Joho & another v Suleiman Said Shahbal & 2 others6×
- 19Njuguna v Chogo6×
- 20Orioki v Kevian Kenya Limited6×
- 21Palace Investment Ltd v Geofirey Kariuki Mwenda & Another6×
- 22African Highland Produce Limited v John Kisorio5×
- 23Biosystems Consultants v Nyali Links Arcade5×
- 24Florence Mutheu Musembi & Geofrey Mutunga Kimiti v Francis Karenge5×
- 25Jabane v Olenja5×
Who dissents
Judges who wrote separately most often in the Small Claims.
No separately-recorded dissents in the corpus.
Name variants in the source judgments are collapsed.
Bench size
How many judges sat on each judgment.
- 1 judge341
Most-interpreted legislation
What it hears
Counts are drawn from AI-extracted briefs of every Small Claims Court judgment on Kenya Law, each checked against the source text.
A note on accuracy. These pages are generated automatically from our AI-written case briefs and have not been checked by a lawyer. Case titles and citations come from Kenya Law; the counts, topics, propositions and “treatment” labels are derived from the briefs and can be incomplete or wrong. Use them as a research aid and always read the original judgment before relying on anything here. This is not legal advice.