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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. Grant v. Swarthout 3:11-cv-03015 · 2022-03-01 · civil · other
  2. Albin v. R.J. Donovan 3:20-cv-00471 · 2022-03-01 · civil
  3. United States v. Tyrone Duren 20-50215 · 2022-02-18 · criminal · affirmed
  4. Kakowski v. Allison 3:21-cv-01675 · 2022-02-14 · civil
  5. Pina v. Sacuan Security and Police 3:21-cv-01577 · 2022-02-09 · civil
  6. Himes v. Garcia 3:20-cv-00726 · 2022-01-31 · civil
  7. Cavazos v. Garilaso 3:21-cv-01156 · 2022-01-31 · civil
  8. Kakowski v. Allison 3:21-cv-01675 · 2021-12-21 · civil
  9. Ayse Sen v. Amzn 20-55857 · 2021-12-21 · civil · affirmed
  10. SolarCity Corporation v. Doria 3:16-cv-03085 · 2021-12-08 · civil
  11. Pina v. Sacuan Security and Police 3:21-cv-01577 · 2021-12-03 · civil
  12. Smith v. Wolf 3:20-cv-01409 · 2021-12-01 · civil
  13. Jones v. Oceanside Police Department 3:21-cv-01972 · 2021-11-23 · civil
  14. Del Muro-Guerrero v. United States 3:20-cv-02121 · 2021-11-15 · civil
  15. Magdziak v. Berryhill 3:17-cv-01367-JAH-RNB · 2021-11-12 · civil
  16. Bada v. United States 3:18-cv-02916-JAH · 2021-11-12 · civil
  17. Dorado v. Crumb 3:20-cv-01936 · 2021-11-12 · civil
  18. Harvey v. Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC 3:11-cv-03006 · 2021-11-09 · civil
  19. McNeil v. Montgomery 3:21-cv-00860 · 2021-11-03 · civil
  20. Cavazos v. Garilaso 3:21-cv-01156 · 2021-11-02 · civil
  21. Mendoza v. United States of America 3:15-cv-01528 · 2021-10-22 · civil
  22. Purpura v. Does Members of the Inmate Classification Committee 3:20-cv-01688 · 2021-10-18 · civil
  23. Ruiz Oliva v. Espinoza Espinoza 3:20-cv-01133 · 2021-10-05 · civil
  24. Dare v. Nam 3:19-cv-01765-JAH-MSB · 2021-09-27 · civil
  25. Ornelas v. United States 3:17-cv-02410-JAH · 2021-09-27 · civil