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*the Supreme Court.
*the Supreme Court.
The municipal courts sit in every municipality, although smaller municipalities in a county may share a judge, and are under the supervision of the Superior Court. Unusually, the Superior Court, not the municipal courts, functions as the [[Small Claims Court]].
The municipal courts sit in every municipality, although smaller municipalities in a county may share a judge, and are under the supervision of the Superior Court. Unusually, the Superior Court, not the municipal courts, functions as the [[Small Claims Court]].
===New York===
[[New York]] has an unusually complicated state judicial system, with different organizational details for [[New York City]], [[suburb]]an [[Long Island]], and Upstate New York. Most notably, the court called the Supreme Court is actually a trial court, roughly analogous to a circuit or superior court elsewhere. The highest court is called the Court of Appeals, and the intermediate appellate court is called the Appellate Division.<ref>[http://www.courts.state.ny.us/courts/ New York State Unified Court System]</ref>
===Pennsylvania===
===Pennsylvania===
The [[Pennsylvania]] judiciary includes:
The [[Pennsylvania]] judiciary includes: