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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 authored (every role)

  1. Himes v. Hadjadj 3:19-cv-02216 · 2021-03-05 · civil
  2. Dorado v. Crumb 3:20-cv-01936 · 2021-02-11 · civil
  3. Shallow v. Target Corporation 3:14-cv-00294 · 2021-02-04 · civil
  4. Stark v. GG Homes, Inc. 3:20-cv-01913 · 2021-02-04 · civil
  5. Stark v. GG Homes, Inc. 3:20-cv-01913 · 2021-02-04 · civil
  6. Omidi v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. 3:14-cv-00857 · 2021-02-04 · civil
  7. Grant v. Swarthout 3:11-cv-03015 · 2021-01-21 · civil · other
  8. Perez v. United States of America 3:16-cv-01911 · 2021-01-19 · civil
  9. Ronald Cohn, Inc. v. Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. 3:19-cv-00848 · 2021-01-13 · civil
  10. Ortiz-Luna v. United States 3:17-cv-01146 · 2020-12-01 · civil
  11. Dorado v. Crumb 3:20-cv-01936 · 2020-12-01 · civil
  12. Helvy v. Paramo 3:20-cv-01144 · 2020-12-01 · civil
  13. Hosley v. Foulk 3:15-cv-00877 · 2020-11-30 · civil
  14. Smith v. Avalos 3:20-cv-01534 · 2020-11-25 · civil
  15. Romo, Jr. v. Costco Wholesale Corporation 3:19-cv-01120 · 2020-11-24 · civil
  16. Whynaught v. Colvin 3:16-cv-01574 · 2020-11-19 · civil
  17. Krueger v. Wyeth Inc 3:03-cv-02496 · 2020-11-12 · civil
  18. Freeborn v. Colvin 3:15-cv-02118 · 2020-11-10 · civil
  19. Jackson v. Covello et.al. 3:19-cv-02444-JAH-MMP · 2020-11-10 · civil
  20. O'Donnell v. Nedd 3:19-cv-01396 · 2020-11-10 · civil
  21. Hooper v. County of San Diego 3:07-cv-01647 · 2020-11-09 · civil
  22. Bowell v. Nguyen 3:20-cv-00616 · 2020-11-05 · civil
  23. Jones v. The Deparment of Justice 3:20-cv-02061 · 2020-10-29 · civil
  24. Smith v. Wolf 3:20-cv-01409 · 2020-10-28 · civil
  25. Riley v. Vizcarra 3:18-cv-02911 · 2020-10-26 · civil