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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. 3:25-cv-03492 · 2025-12-17 · civil · writ granted
  2. 3:25-cv-03279 · 2025-12-17 · civil · other
  3. 3:25-cv-02723 · 2025-12-17 · civil
  4. United States v. Avalos 23-3944 · 2025-12-17 · criminal · affirmed
  5. 3:25-cv-03449 · 2025-12-16 · civil
  6. 3:25-cv-03449 · 2025-12-16 · civil
  7. 3:25-cv-01150 · 2025-12-16 · civil
  8. United States v. Silva 24-3226 · 2025-12-16 · civil · affirmed
  9. 3:25-cv-02879 · 2025-12-10 · civil
  10. 3:25-cv-03279 · 2025-12-09 · civil
  11. 3:24-cv-01265 · 2025-12-04 · civil
  12. 3:25-cv-00310 · 2025-12-03 · civil
  13. 3:25-cv-03227 · 2025-12-02 · civil
  14. 3:25-cv-02987 · 2025-12-02 · civil
  15. 3:25-cv-01665 · 2025-12-01 · civil
  16. 3:25-cv-01550 · 2025-11-28 · civil
  17. 3:25-cv-03209 · 2025-11-26 · civil · other
  18. 3:25-cv-03207 · 2025-11-26 · civil · other
  19. Siddell v. USA 24-5915 · 2025-11-20 · civil · affirmed
  20. 3:25-cv-02723 · 2025-11-19 · civil
  21. 3:25-cv-02027 · 2025-11-17 · civil
  22. 3:25-cv-00742 · 2025-11-12 · civil
  23. 3:25-cv-02879 · 2025-11-05 · civil
  24. 3:22-cv-01175 · 2025-11-04 · civil
  25. 3:25-cv-02015 · 2025-10-27 · civil