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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

By year: 2018 12 · 2011 10 · 2019 9 · 2010 9 · 2020 8 · 2017 8 · 2023 5 · 2016 5 · 2022 4 · 2021 4 · 2013 3 · 2009 3 · 2008 3 · 2007 3 · 2026 2 · 2025 2 · 2012 2 · 2006 2 · 2024 1 · 2015 1 · 2014 1 · 2005 1 ·

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. Myles v. County of San Diego 23-3198 · 2025-05-12 · civil · reversed in part
  2. Enrique Lozano v. Julio Yee Cabrera 22-55273 · 2023-03-07 · civil · reversed in part
  3. Ayse Sen v. amazon.com, Inc. 18-56413 · 2020-02-12 · civil · reversed in part
  4. United States v. Coleman Payne 17-50223 · 2018-10-15 · criminal · reversed in part
  5. Jason Decarlo v. Costco 16-56602 · 2018-07-31 · civil · reversed in part
  6. Brinks, Inc. v. Dorian Ceron 15-56821 · 2018-05-03 · civil · reversed in part
  7. Enrique Lozano v. Julio Cabrera 15-55535 · 2017-02-07 · civil · reversed in part
  8. Enrique Lozano v. Julio Cabrera 15-55535, 16-55522 · 2017-02-07 · civil · reversed in part