Check a delay
Before filing a mandamus or delay suit: how suits like yours ended in the court, how judges there and elsewhere ruled on the same form at a similar delay, and which threshold arguments they accepted.
Try: 221(g) in the D.D.C., 13 months · DS-260 in the E.D. Wash., 13 months · I-918 in the D. Neb., 12 months
About these numbers
The check runs in your browser over three of the site's data files: data/decisions.json (every decision), data/vocabulary.json (labels and counts) and the chosen court's suits, data/dockets/court/<court>.json. Suits are counted by the form's agency, not by the form: dockets seldom name the form, and a suit's form mostly comes from its written decision, so counting suits by form would keep mostly the contested ones. The data files and the search API.
2,914 written decisions from 2,661 cases in the whole mandamus and agency-delay group, the group's newest decided October 30, 2026. Updated November 3, 2026 at 1:24 a.m. CT; the Passim connector counts the live collection, which can differ by the day's additions and retirements (which total to quote). Coverage: of the 1,606 public decisions since January 1, 2025 that a CourtListener and GovInfo search for mandamus and agency delay finds, Passim holds 1,371 (85%), measured November 3, 2026. Some of what that search finds are not mandamus decisions. Tell us about a decision we're missing.
These are counts of past written decisions and dockets, not predictions of how any case will be decided. A distribution appears only when at least 5 decisions (or 5 dockets) are behind it; smaller groups are listed, not summarized. How it's counted.