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John A. Houston
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John A. Houston

District judge · Superior Court of Southern District of California County · 2005–2026

Judge, District Court, S.D. California 2003–

D+
99% — 505.5 of 513 orders sound, per qwen3.8-27b; in the top 68% 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.

98cases reviewed on appeal
536opinions authored
551panels sat on (not as author)
23%reversed, in whole or part, of 81 merits decisions

Outcomes on appeal

affirmed 62 reversed in part 8 reversed 7 vacated 4 remanded 2 dismissed 2

The Ninth Circuit's later rulings on their dockets

affirmed 3 reversed in part 2 vacated 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.

Areas

criminal 54 civil 41 delinquency 3

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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. 3:24-cv-01781 · 2026-09-18 · civil
  2. 3:24-cv-01781 · 2026-09-11 · civil
  3. United States v. McFarland 24-4850 · 2026-08-31 · criminal · affirmed
  4. 3:26-cv-02080 · 2026-08-07 · civil
  5. 3:25-cv-02628 · 2026-08-04 · civil
  6. 3:26-cv-02047 · 2026-07-31 · civil
  7. 3:26-cv-01143 · 2026-07-31 · civil
  8. 3:25-cv-03101 · 2026-07-31 · civil
  9. 3:25-cv-03787 · 2026-07-13 · civil
  10. 3:24-cv-01118 · 2026-07-09 · civil
  11. 3:23-cv-01920 · 2026-05-06 · civil
  12. 3:25-cv-00261 · 2026-03-30 · civil
  13. 3:25-cv-01103 · 2026-03-27 · civil
  14. 3:24-cv-01781 · 2026-03-27 · civil
  15. 3:24-cv-01781 · 2026-03-27 · civil
  16. United States v. Gonzalez-Lopez 25-2536 · 2026-03-26 · criminal · affirmed
  17. 3:25-cv-00745 · 2026-03-24 · civil
  18. 3:25-cv-03787 · 2026-03-20 · civil
  19. 3:26-cv-00226 · 2026-02-26 · civil
  20. 3:25-cv-00202 · 2026-02-20 · civil
  21. Brighton Group, LLC v. Seaport Group Enterprises LLC 3:24-cv-01624 · 2026-02-13 · civil
  22. 3:25-cv-01670 · 2026-01-08 · civil
  23. 3:25-cv-00202 · 2025-11-24 · civil
  24. 3:23-cv-01608 · 2025-11-21 · civil
  25. Wight v. Unknown 3:25-cv-02504 · 2025-10-02 · civil · other