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Dana M. Sabraw
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Dana M. Sabraw

District judge · Superior Court of Southern District of California County · 2006–2026

Judge, District Court, S.D. California 2003–

F++
98% — 525.5 of 536 orders sound, per qwen3.8-27b; in the top 81% of 51 graded judges

On the assumption that the model is right — qwen3.8-27b's verdicts on a court's own orders matched a later appeal 76% of the time (104 of 136), 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.

129cases reviewed on appeal
619opinions authored
627panels sat on (not as author)
23%reversed, in whole or part, of 109 merits decisions

Outcomes on appeal

affirmed 84 vacated 10 reversed 8 reversed in part 7 dismissed 5 remanded 3

The Ninth Circuit's later rulings on their dockets

affirmed 18 reversed 2 reversed in part 1

Each Ninth Circuit opinion that names a docket this judge wrote an order on, by its outcome; the ruling it reviewed is not always the order in the record. The order's page links the opinion.

Areas

civil 63 criminal 62 probate 2 other 1 delinquency 1

By year: 2019 14 · 2010 14 · 2024 11 · 2020 9 · 2011 9 · 2025 8 · 2021 8 · 2007 7 · 2022 6 · 2017 6 · 2008 6 · 2023 5 · 2012 5 · 2009 5 · 2026 4 · 2018 4 · 2016 2 · 2014 2 · 2013 2 · 2006 2 ·

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

  1. United States v. Ho-Romero 23-3848 · 2026-02-18 · criminal · remanded
  2. United States v. Avalos 23-3944 · 2025-12-17 · criminal · affirmed
  3. United States v. Ibarra 23-1282 · 2024-05-29 · criminal · vacated
  4. United States v. Randy Graves 22-50289 · 2024-03-11 · criminal · vacated
  5. United States v. Javier Durazo-Miranda 22-50305 · 2024-02-14 · criminal · affirmed
  6. United States v. Luis Marin 22-50154 · 2024-01-17 · criminal · affirmed
  7. United States v. Mario Gonzalez-Godinez 21-50031 · 2024-01-03 · criminal
  8. United States v. Veronica Perez 21-50166 · 2023-07-12 · criminal · reversed in part
  9. United States v. Joel Wright 20-50361 · 2022-08-29 · criminal
  10. United States v. Joel Wright 20-50361 · 2022-07-29 · criminal
  11. United States v. Hector Martinez-Robos 20-50205 · 2022-06-24 · criminal · affirmed
  12. Steven Walker v. United States 20-55654 · 2021-05-25 · criminal · affirmed
  13. United States v. Jose Murillo-Camacho 20-50262 · 2021-04-26 · criminal · affirmed
  14. United States v. Christian Clews 20-50184 · 2021-01-29 · criminal · affirmed
  15. United States v. Felipe Ambriz-Valdovinos 19-50024 · 2020-12-09 · criminal · affirmed
  16. United States v. Paul Rampoldi 18-50247 · 2020-10-09 · criminal · affirmed
  17. United States v. Roberto Lopez 18-50379 · 2020-06-17 · criminal · reversed in part
  18. United States v. Alex Gomez 19-50213 · 2020-05-07 · criminal · reversed in part
  19. United States v. Pablo Zamorano-Munoz 19-50193 · 2020-04-15 · criminal · affirmed
  20. United States v. Quinton Jackson 17-56149 · 2019-08-14 · criminal · affirmed
  21. United States v. Randy Graves 16-50276 · 2019-05-30 · criminal · affirmed
  22. United States v. Randy Graves 16-50276 · 2019-05-30 · criminal
  23. United States v. Jose Ortiz-Barragan 19-50002 · 2019-05-28 · criminal · affirmed
  24. United States v. Abraham Hernandez-Zavala 18-55267 · 2019-05-23 · criminal · affirmed
  25. United States v. Mario Fultz 17-56002 · 2019-05-10 · criminal · affirmed