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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

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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. Kristina Raines v. U.S. Healthworks Medical Group 21-55229 · 2023-10-18 · civil · reversed in part
  2. United States v. Veronica Perez 21-50166 · 2023-07-12 · criminal · reversed in part
  3. United States v. Roberto Lopez 18-50379 · 2020-06-17 · criminal · reversed in part
  4. United States v. Alex Gomez 19-50213 · 2020-05-07 · criminal · reversed in part
  5. Estate of Kevin Brown v. Michael Lambert 17-55930 · 2019-07-24 · probate · reversed in part
  6. United States v. Jesus Felix-Heras 17-50158 · 2019-03-05 · criminal · reversed in part
  7. Hugh Garcia v. James Yates 08-56996 · 2011-03-17 · civil · reversed in part