Those looking for major pronouncements from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on a range legal topics may have been somewhat disappointed so far this year by what appears to be a comparatively low output of opinions.

According to a review of the court’s output, with nearly the first half of the 2022 over, the high court has issued opinions in 10 cases. Often times the cases have dealt with esoteric areas of the law, such as zoning variances and the code of military justice, and only six of those cases have produced rulings with a clear majority. Contrast that with the first six months of 2021, when the justices had issued opinions in 44 cases, with only two of those being evenly divided.