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Jinsook Ohta

Judge · Superior Court of San Diego County · 2022–2026

A++
provisional — 100% — 5 of 5 rulings upheld, per qwen3.8-27b; would rank in the top 1% of 312 graded judges, but ten rulings are needed for a standing letter — 5 so far

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.

22cases reviewed on appeal
249opinions authored
249panels sat on (not as author)
22%reversed, in whole or part, of 18 merits decisions

Outcomes on appeal

affirmed 14 vacated 3 reversed 1

The Ninth Circuit's later rulings on their dockets

affirmed 6 vacated 3 reversed 2

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 16 family 3 criminal 3

By year: 2025 7 · 2023 6 · 2024 5 · 2026 4 ·

Analysis

6 of this judge's reviewed cases have an analysis; counts are shown from 10.

Cases

  1. 3:25-cv-02890 · 2025-11-05 · civil
  2. 3:24-cv-00797 · 2025-11-04 · civil
  3. 3:25-cv-01745 · 2025-10-23 · civil
  4. 3:25-cv-02575 · 2025-10-23 · civil
  5. 3:25-cv-00088 · 2025-10-22 · civil
  6. Khambounheuang v. Noem 3:25-cv-02575 · 2025-10-09 · civil
  7. Nguyen v. Williams 24-3844 · 2025-10-09 · civil · affirmed
  8. American Family Connect Property and Casualty Insurance Company v. Deen 3:25-cv-01293 · 2025-08-27 · civil
  9. Palacios v. Warden of R.J. Donovan Prison 3:25-cv-01352 · 2025-08-25 · civil
  10. Hammerlord v. Elliott 24-1095 · 2025-07-17 · civil · affirmed
  11. (PC) Davis v. Bobbla 3:24-cv-01276 · 2025-07-01 · civil
  12. Underwood v. San Diego Unified School District 3:25-cv-00088 · 2025-06-25 · civil
  13. Ellis-Sanders v. Guardian Piazza D'Oro LLC 3:25-cv-01379 · 2025-06-09 · civil
  14. Houston Casualty Company v. Cibus US LLC 24-876 · 2025-04-24 · civil
  15. Musgrove v. Hanifin 23-3922 · 2025-04-23 · civil · affirmed
  16. Ross v. County of San Diego 3:21-cv-02130 · 2025-03-27 · civil
  17. Yocom v. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services 3:22-cv-00839 · 2025-03-21 · civil
  18. Bartlett v. BP West Coast Products LLC 3:18-cv-01374 · 2025-03-19 · civil
  19. Rinaldi v. BP West Coast Products LLC 3:18-cv-01377 · 2025-03-19 · civil
  20. Persian Gulf Inc. v. BP West Coast Products LLC 3:15-cv-01749 · 2025-03-19 · civil
  21. Lunetta-Sparr v. I.Q. Data International, Inc. 3:24-cv-02259 · 2025-03-05 · civil
  22. Moriarty v. American General Life Insurance 23-3650 · 2025-03-04 · civil · vacated
  23. Marinkovic v. Lee 3:22-cv-00998 · 2025-02-12 · civil
  24. Frankie Greer v. County of San Diego 23-55607 · 2025-02-10 · civil · reversed
  25. Lettieri v. Maruchan, Inc. 3:24-cv-01176 · 2025-01-31 · civil