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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. Allen v. Cardenas 3:20-cv-00788 · 2020-04-30 · civil
  2. St. Sauver v. Byrd-Hunt 3:20-cv-00584 · 2020-04-29 · civil
  3. Musgrove v. Pierce 3:20-cv-00655 · 2020-04-29 · civil
  4. Allen v. Cardenas 3:19-cv-01610 · 2020-04-27 · civil
  5. Solorio v. Doe (1) 3:19-cv-02193 · 2020-04-21 · civil
  6. Reyes v. United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs 3:17-cv-01612 · 2020-04-20 · civil
  7. Buso v. ACH Food Companies, Inc. 3:17-cv-01872 · 2020-04-20 · civil
  8. Nathaniel Gann v. Ralph Diaz 17-55316 · 2020-04-20 · civil · affirmed
  9. Valiant v. Berryhill 3:17-cv-02085 · 2020-04-14 · civil
  10. Ibarra v. Administrative Service in Contemp. 3:19-cv-02062 · 2020-04-13 · civil
  11. St. Sauver v. Byrd-Hunt 3:20-cv-00584 · 2020-04-03 · civil
  12. Allen v. Cardenas 3:19-cv-01610 · 2020-04-01 · civil
  13. Jimenez-Vega v. United States 3:20-cv-00415 · 2020-03-31 · civil · other
  14. DeCarlo v. Costco Wholesale Corporation 3:14-cv-00202 · 2020-03-23 · civil
  15. Omidi v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. 3:14-cv-00857 · 2020-03-23 · civil
  16. Securities and Exchange Commission v. de Nicolas Gutierrez 3:17-cv-02086 · 2020-03-19 · civil
  17. Haynes v. Chau 3:19-cv-02257 · 2020-03-16 · civil
  18. Felipe Gutierrez-Chic v. William Barr 19-55625 · 2020-03-10 · criminal · dismissed
  19. Jabbar v. County of San Diego 3:20-cv-00065 · 2020-03-06 · civil
  20. Ronald Cohn, Inc. v. Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. 3:19-cv-00848 · 2020-03-06 · civil
  21. O'Brien v. Garcia 3:19-cv-01113 · 2020-03-06 · civil
  22. Calderon-Jimenez v. United States 3:16-cv-01798 · 2020-03-06 · civil
  23. Jackson v. Covello et.al. 3:19-cv-02444-JAH-MMP · 2020-02-26 · civil
  24. Turner v. County of San Diego 3:20-cv-00163 · 2020-02-25 · civil
  25. Cox v. United States 3:16-cv-02631 · 2020-02-25 · civil