Roger T. Benitez
Judge, District Court, S.D. California 2004–
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.
Outcomes on appeal
affirmed 122 vacated 20 reversed 20 remanded 7 reversed in part 5 dismissed 4
The Ninth Circuit's later rulings on their dockets
affirmed 14 reversed 4 reversed in part 2
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 126 civil 64 probate 1 other 1
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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)
- Jazi v. Blinken
- Bouari v. Brown
- Gardner v. State of New Mexico
- Perez v. Waterco of the Central States, Inc.
- Ghianni v. United States Postal Service
- Grimes v. Doe
- Grimes v. Panta
- Vargas v. Borla
- Wilhoite v. Hou
- Phillis Whealley Association v. Wohfeil
- Jacome v. Newsom
- Shorty v. Hill
- Sonico v. City of Brawley
- Vargas v. Borla
- In re Franklin Wireless Corp. Derivative Litigation
- Phillips v. Commissioner of Social Security
- Underwood v. Love
- Torres v. General Motors LLC
- Kinsey v. Pasha
- Jones v. Oceanside Police Department
- Hidalgo v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
- Tijerina v. United Airlines, Inc.
- Williams v. Newson
- Hannonen v. McCloskey
- Jones v. Oceanside Police Department