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Patricia D. Benke

Justice, Court of Appeal · California Court of Appeal, Fourth District, Division One · 1986–2021

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal, 4th District 1987–2021 · Judge, Superior Court of California, County of San Diego 1985–1987 · Judge, Municipal Court of California, County of San Diego 1983–1985

D++
98% — 755.5 of 772 opinions sound, per qwen3.8-27b; in the top 63% of 80 graded judges

On the assumption that the model is right — qwen3.8-27b reads the court's own disposition right 70% of the time, graded on a curve: A is the top fifth of the judges graded under this model, F the bottom fifth; ++ / + / − / −− within the band. How the grade is made.

830opinions authored
1,823panels sat on (not as author)

Analysis

No analyses yet. When they exist, this shows counts of the model's findings across this judge's reviewed cases — with the court's own dispositions beside them, and only from 10 cases.

Cases authored (every role)

  1. Tetravue, Inc. v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co. CA4/1 D067155 · 2015-12-23 · civil · affirmed
  2. People v. Edwards CA4/1 D066007 · 2015-12-18 · criminal · reversed in part
  3. People v. Cortez CA4/1 D068051 · 2015-12-15 · criminal · reversed in part
  4. People v. Castro CA4/1 D067020 · 2015-12-15 · criminal · affirmed
  5. Hurtado v. Ishinabe CA4/1 D066573 · 2015-12-02 · family · affirmed
  6. Flores v. Keller CA4/1 D067215 · 2015-12-02 · civil · affirmed
  7. People v. Schutz CA4/1 D068484 · 2015-11-23 · criminal · reversed in part
  8. Altafulla v. Ervin CA4/1 D066912 · 2015-11-20 · family · affirmed
  9. People v. Shumate CA4/1 D067600 · 2015-11-17 · criminal · affirmed
  10. People v. Daly CA4/1 D066727 · 2015-11-12 · delinquency · affirmed
  11. Buchanan v. Soto D065652 · 2015-11-06 · civil · affirmed
  12. People v. Lee CA4/1 D066915 · 2015-10-30 · criminal · modified
  13. In re Christopher E. CA4/1 D068290 · 2015-10-26 · dependency · affirmed
  14. People v. Guillory CA4/1 D066228 · 2015-10-26 · criminal · affirmed
  15. People v. Shears CA4/1 D065200 · 2015-10-23 · criminal · affirmed
  16. National Bank of Calif. v. Vildosola CA4/1 D065897 · 2015-10-21 · civil · affirmed
  17. Marriage of Spath CA4/1 D066279 · 2015-10-20 · family · modified
  18. Illingworth v. Garton CA4/1 D066323 · 2015-10-15 · civil · affirmed
  19. People v. Lafond CA4/1 D066439 · 2015-10-15 · criminal · affirmed
  20. People v. Gomez CA4/1 D066894 · 2015-10-07 · criminal · affirmed
  21. People v. Williams CA4/1 D067567 · 2015-10-05 · criminal · affirmed
  22. People v. Hernandez CA CA4/1 D067440 · 2015-10-01 · criminal · reversed in part
  23. Marriage of Yermian CA4/1 D065036 · 2015-09-29 · family · affirmed
  24. San Diego County Health & Human Services Agency v. Mari M. D067870 · 2015-09-25 · dependency · affirmed
  25. Rojas v. United Parcel Service CA4/1 D068070 · 2015-09-22 · civil · affirmed