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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. Dorado v. Crumb 3:20-cv-01936 · 2020-10-06 · civil
  2. Gathrite v. Wilson 3:19-cv-01852 · 2020-09-28 · civil
  3. Beleche v. Diversified Recovery Bureau, LLC 3:19-cv-02472 · 2020-09-28 · civil
  4. Spatcher v. Gore 3:20-cv-01089 · 2020-09-16 · civil
  5. Helvy v. Paramo 3:20-cv-01144 · 2020-09-11 · civil
  6. Purpura v. Does Members of the Inmate Classification Committee 3:20-cv-01688 · 2020-09-11 · civil
  7. Duell v. Genser 3:20-cv-01145 · 2020-09-11 · civil
  8. Hooper v. County of San Diego 3:07-cv-01647 · 2020-09-03 · civil
  9. Profade Apparel LLC v. Road Runner Sports, Inc. 3:18-cv-01254 · 2020-09-02 · civil
  10. Thomas v. Richard J. Donovan 3:19-cv-02181 · 2020-08-28 · civil
  11. United States v. Robert Heizelman 19-50346 · 2020-08-27 · criminal · affirmed
  12. Smith v. Avalos 3:20-cv-01534 · 2020-08-19 · civil
  13. Pacheco v. Bushfire Grill, Inc. 3:18-cv-01696 · 2020-08-14 · civil
  14. Thai v. Berryhill 3:18-cv-02647 · 2020-08-13 · civil
  15. Sen v. Amazon.com, Inc. 3:16-cv-01486 · 2020-08-10 · civil
  16. Himes v. Garcia 3:20-cv-00726 · 2020-08-10 · civil
  17. Gallegos v. Seeley 3:18-cv-01322 · 2020-07-29 · civil
  18. William Owens v. Kenneth Braithwaite 19-55795 · 2020-07-16 · civil · reversed
  19. Dorsey v. Paramo 3:20-cv-00843 · 2020-07-13 · civil
  20. Albin v. R.J. Donovan 3:20-cv-00471 · 2020-07-13 · civil
  21. Helvy v. Paramo 3:20-cv-01144 · 2020-07-08 · civil
  22. Compound Solutions, Inc. v. Corefx Ingredients, LLC. 3:19-cv-02058 · 2020-07-06 · civil
  23. Zakosky v. Department of Veterans Affairs 3:17-cv-01373 · 2020-07-02 · civil
  24. Dougherty v. Guild Mortgage Company 3:16-cv-02909 · 2020-06-30 · civil
  25. Carter v. United States of America 3:20-cv-00525 · 2020-06-30 · civil