Joel M. Pressman
Judge, Superior Court of California, County of San Diego 2002–2017
A-
81% — 124 of 154 rulings upheld, per qwen3.8-27b; in the top 15% of 312 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.
72cases reviewed on appeal
28%reversed, in whole or part, of 69 merits decisions
Outcomes on appeal
affirmed 49 reversed 12 reversed in part 7 writ granted 2 writ denied 1 modified 1
Areas
By year: 2014 18 · 2015 17 · 2016 16 · 2013 9 · 2018 8 · 2017 4 ·
Analysis
133reviewed cases analysed
499rulings read
6rulings where the model disagrees with the court
26cases with a verified missed authority
3appellate opinions called questionable
Counts of a model's readings across this judge's reviewed cases, each shown on its case page beside the court's disposition. Not a finding about the judge.
Cases
- Atlas Allied v. San Diego Community College Dist. CA4/1
- Mele & Ros v. Walker CA4/1
- Gibson v. HoMedics CA4/1
- Staniforth v. Judges' Retirement System
- K.I. v. Wagner
- Staniforth v. Judges' Retirement System
- Staniforth v. The Judges Retirement System CA4/1
- K.I. v. Wagner
- Lashgari v. Chen CA4/1
- Woodall v. San Diego County Sheriff's Dept. CA4/1
- Internat. Marketing Enterprises v. Biofilm CA4/1
- Lane v. Cooper CA4/1
- Migliore v. Nu Flow Holdings CA4/1
- Michalski v. Scripps Mercy Hospital
- Premium Stones Trading v. AMS Stones Warehouse CA4/1
- Angelo v. Winet CA4/1
- Berkes v. San Diego Foreclosure Services, Inc. CA4/1
- Drimmel v. SettlementOne CA4/1
- W&W Del Lago v. Rancho Del Lago HOA CA4/1
- Le Beau v. Bank of America CA4/1
- O'Leary v. Cal. Dept. of Fish & Game CA4/1
- Brown v. K Motors CA4/1