Jinsook Ohta
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
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 authored (every role)
- Khambounheuang v. Noem
- American Family Connect Property and Casualty Insurance Company v. Deen
- Palacios v. Warden of R.J. Donovan Prison
- (PC) Davis v. Bobbla
- Underwood v. San Diego Unified School District
- Ellis-Sanders v. Guardian Piazza D'Oro LLC
- Ross v. County of San Diego
- Yocom v. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services
- Bartlett v. BP West Coast Products LLC
- Rinaldi v. BP West Coast Products LLC
- Persian Gulf Inc. v. BP West Coast Products LLC
- Lunetta-Sparr v. I.Q. Data International, Inc.
- Marinkovic v. Lee
- Lettieri v. Maruchan, Inc.
- Marner v. U.S. Department of the Air Force
- Woodway USA, Inc. v. LifeCORE Fitness, Inc.
- Bonilla v. Benitez
- Bonilla v. Judges
- Alamilla Heredia v. The GEO Group, Inc.
- Kaleopa v. O'Malley
- Marinkovic v. Lee
- MidKiff v. San Diego Family Housing, LLC
- Sharp v. Coalinga State Hospital
- Jones v. Sammartino