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Daniel E. Butcher

District judge · 2020–2026

, District Court, S.D. California 2020–

C+
99% — 164.0 of 165 orders sound, per qwen3.8-27b; in the top 46% 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.

178opinions authored
178panels sat on (not as author)

The Ninth Circuit's later rulings on their dockets

affirmed 3 reversed 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.

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. Iconic Mars Corporation v. Kaotica Corporation 3:22-cv-00092 · 2025-05-02 · civil
  2. Bloom v. City of San Diego 3:17-cv-02324 · 2025-04-25 · civil
  3. Pacific Steel Group v. CMC Steel Fabricators, INC. 3:22-cv-00892 · 2025-04-11 · civil
  4. Rattanasinh v. Dudek 3:25-cv-00529 · 2025-03-20 · civil
  5. Irizarry v. Kijakazi 3:22-cv-01423 · 2025-03-07 · civil
  6. Strike 3 Holdings, LLC v. Doe 3:24-cv-02483 · 2025-02-24 · civil
  7. Rachal v. Commissioner of Social Security 3:25-cv-00115 · 2025-02-13 · civil
  8. Silva v. Commissioner of Social Security 3:23-cv-02324 · 2025-02-03 · civil
  9. In re Luxury Jet Ski Rentals LLC 3:22-cv-02009 · 2024-12-31 · civil
  10. Friedman v. Kijakazi 3:22-cv-01394 · 2024-11-27 · civil
  11. Smith v. Commissioner of Social Secuirty 3:23-cv-00682 · 2024-09-30 · civil
  12. Chapman v. Commissioner of Social Security 3:23-cv-01588 · 2024-09-28 · civil
  13. Strike 3 Holdings, LLC v. Doe 3:24-cv-01307 · 2024-08-21 · civil
  14. Gonzales v. Commissioner of Social Security 3:23-cv-01417 · 2024-07-12 · civil
  15. Nieber v. Robertson 3:23-cv-00174 · 2024-07-12 · civil
  16. Salmen v. Terronez 3:23-cv-02054 · 2024-06-18 · civil
  17. Hastie-Sanders v. O'Malley 3:24-cv-00991 · 2024-06-17 · civil
  18. Whittle v. Saul 3:20-cv-01452 · 2024-06-07 · civil
  19. Maserang v. Saul 3:19-cv-02010 · 2024-05-23 · civil
  20. Cole v. Kijakazi 3:20-cv-00463 · 2024-05-21 · civil
  21. Morales v. Saul 3:20-cv-01271 · 2024-05-20 · civil
  22. Huynh v. Costco Wholesale Membership, Inc. 3:24-cv-00073 · 2024-05-01 · civil
  23. McCallum v. Kijakazi 3:23-cv-00381 · 2024-03-29 · civil
  24. Safrang v. Kijakazi 3:22-cv-01946 · 2024-03-27 · civil
  25. Ramirez v. Commissioner of Social Security 3:22-cv-01444 · 2024-03-27 · civil