Katherine A. Bacal
Sitting now: Dept. 63, Hall of Justice — CIVIL IC (the court's data of 01:00AM 17 Oct 2026)
Judge, Superior Court of California, County of San Diego 2008–
On the assumption that the model is right — qwen3.8-27b reads the court's own disposition right 70% of the time, 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.
Outcomes on appeal
affirmed 55 reversed 17 reversed in part 9 writ granted 5 dismissed 5
Areas
By year: 2025 11 · 2021 11 · 2016 11 · 2024 10 · 2026 9 · 2023 9 · 2015 7 · 2022 6 · 2020 6 · 2019 4 · 2018 4 · 2017 2 · 2014 1 ·
Analysis
Counts of a model's readings across this judge's reviewed cases, each shown on its case page beside the court's disposition. Not a finding about the judge.
Cases reviewed on appeal (every role)
- State Farm General Insurance Company v. Lara
- Haytasingh v. City of San Diego
- Starcevic v. Pentech Financial Services, Inc.
- Fuller v. Aguilar CA4/1
- Storix, Inc. v. Johnson CA4/1
- Wasserman v. Lustigson CA4/1
- Storix v. Johnson CA4/1
- Ghuman v. Gronager CA4/1
- Sallah v. Ujas Barstow, LLC CA4/1
- Contreras Curiel Corp. v. Superior Court CA4/1
- Singleton v. Friedberg CA4/1
- Emerald Expositions v. Meeting Services Unlimited CA4/1
- Cal. Ins. Guarantee Assn. v. San Diego County Schools etc.
- Koenig v. Warner Unified School District
- San Diego Gas & Electric Co. v. San Diego Regional Water etc.
- City of San Diego v. Superior Court
- Carrington v. Starbucks Corp.
- City of San Diego v. Superior Court
- Bottini v. City of San Diego
- Eng v. Brown
- San Luis Rey Racing, Inc. v. California Horse Racing Board
- Citizens for Beach Rights v. City of San Diego
- Lee v. Silveira
- Woods v. Bank of America CA4/1
- Moore v. Regents of the University of Calif.