New Delhi, Jan. 2 -- In 2025, the Supreme Court crossed a numerical milestone as over 1,400 judgments were delivered in a single year. Yet amid this volume, another, less discussed trend has quietly taken shape - the extraordinary and widening variation in the length of its judgments. At one end sits Justice JB Pardiwala's April judgment in the Tamil Nadu Governor case, a sprawling 415-page ruling that laid down strict timelines for governors and the president to act on state legislation and introduced the controversial concept of "deemed assent" in cases of inordinate delay. It is the longest judgment delivered by the Supreme Court in 2025. On the other end of the spectrum, barely seven months later, a five-judge constitution bench effecti...