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William S. Dato

Justice, Court of Appeal · California Court of Appeal, Fourth District, Division One · 2017–2026

Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal, 4th District 2017– · Judge, Superior Court of California, County of San Diego 2003–2017

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98% — 467.5 of 477 opinions sound, per qwen3.8-27b; in the top 58% 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.

535opinions authored
1,609panels 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 sat on (every role)

  1. People v. Nowden CA4/1 D075767 · 2020-10-09 · criminal · reversed
  2. Chaker v. Superior Court CA4/1 D075494 · 2020-10-08 · civil · modified
  3. Mandujano v. Johnston CA4/1 D076422 · 2020-10-08 · civil · affirmed
  4. People v. Torres CA4/1 D075060 · 2020-10-02 · criminal · affirmed
  5. People v. Geh CA4/1 D075858 · 2020-09-30 · criminal · affirmed
  6. People v. Longstreet CA4/1 D076189 · 2020-09-29 · criminal · affirmed
  7. County of San Diego Dept. of Child etc. v. A.H. CA4/1 D075759 · 2020-09-28 · family · reversed
  8. People v. Jackson CA4/1 D076497 · 2020-09-28 · criminal · affirmed
  9. People v. Galvan CA4/1 D075262 · 2020-09-23 · criminal · modified
  10. People v. Salas CA4/1 D076686 · 2020-09-23 · criminal · dismissed
  11. People v. Soto CA4/1 D076761 · 2020-09-15 · criminal · affirmed
  12. People v. Roland CA4/1 D075325 · 2020-09-11 · criminal · reversed in part
  13. Marriage of Tascher & Aguilar CA4/1 D074727 · 2020-08-21 · family · affirmed
  14. La Jolla Benefits Assn. v. City of San Diego CA4/1 D075191 · 2020-08-17 · civil · dismissed
  15. Martinez v. San Diego County Credit Union D075360 · 2020-06-19 · civil · reversed
  16. SLPR, L.L.C. v. San Diego Unified Port District D074958 · 2020-05-22 · civil · affirmed
  17. People v. Williams D074647 · 2020-04-09 · criminal · affirmed
  18. Marriage of Everard D075110 · 2020-03-30 · family · affirmed
  19. Citizens for Responsible etc. v. Department of Transportation D074374 · 2020-03-24 · civil · reversed
  20. People v. Cota D074935M · 2020-03-23 · criminal · reversed in part
  21. People v. Smith D075372 · 2020-03-12 · criminal · reversed in part
  22. People v. Cota D074935 · 2020-02-26 · criminal · reversed in part
  23. Kinsella v. Kinsella D074989 · 2020-02-19 · civil · reversed
  24. People v. Johnson D075097 · 2020-02-18 · criminal · affirmed
  25. Hensel Phelps Construction Co. v. Super. Ct. D076264 · 2020-01-22 · civil · writ denied