Which were the most discussed issues by the Federal Supreme Court in 2012? What about the main litigants? In order to respond to these and other questions, researchers from the Center for Justice and Society (CJUS) at FGV's Rio de Janeiro Law School (DIREITO RIO) analyzed a database with approximately 1.5 million processes - from the promulgation of the Constitution in 1988 until today. These data are part of the second report Supreme in Numbers, developed by the School and disclosed yesterday, August 21, at the Federal Supreme Court, in Brasília.  The presentation of the study - which shows how the states act in the Supreme and how local aspects can influence the Court's agenda - was attended by Rio de Janeiro Law School's director, Joaquim Falcão; the professor and coordinator of the study, Ivar A. Hartmann; and the Minister of the Federal Supreme Court, Joaquim Barbosa. Joaquim Falcão and Ivar A. Hartmann are the authors of the report, along with professors Fernando Leal and Pedro Abramovay.  Supreme in Numbers allows a differentiated analysis of the role of the Judiciary in the Democratic State of the Brazilian Law and provides a better knowledge of the internal operations of this power. In this second report, we seek to show how the federation expresses itself in the Supreme Court. We intend to offer a more detailed view of the court itself and how local aspects may, or may not, influence the agenda of the court, says Fernando Leal. The study indicates that, in the past three years, taking into account the population, there are 26 times more processes related to public servers than with workers from the private sector. Another conclusion of the project is that, after the implementation of the main mechanisms of the Judiciary Reform to hold back the increase of workload among the Supreme's processes, the concentration of social security and tax processes decreased significantly, the number of criminal proceedings increased and the demands concerning the right of consumers exploded. At the end of the event, the minister Joaquim Barbosa congratulated Rio de Janeiro Law School's director and the entire FGV team for the research.  For more information about the Report, please visit www.supremoemnumeros.com.br (in Portuguese).*In the photo, the director of Rio de Janeiro Law School, Joaquim Falcão; the minister of the Federal Supreme Court, Joaquim Barbosa; and the president of the Court of Justices' College of Permanent Presidents, Associate Justice Marcus Faver.