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Smith

Justice, Court of Appeal · California Court of Appeal, Fourth District, Division One · 1900–2025

F--
provisional — 80% — 4.0 of 5 opinions sound, per qwen3.8-27b; would rank in the top 100% of 80 graded judges, but ten opinions are needed for a standing letter — 5 so far

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.

6cases reviewed on appeal
732opinions authored
1,565panels sat on (not as author)
—5 merits decisions: a rate is shown from 10

Outcomes on appeal

affirmed 4 reversed 1 other 1

Areas

criminal 3 civil 3

By year: 2014 1 · 2013 1 · 1998 1 · 1914 1 · 1910 1 · 1900 1 ·

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. People v. Lopez CA5 F082551M · 2023-02-06 · criminal · vacated
  2. South Coast v. Ag-Weld CA5 F082612 · 2023-02-01 · civil · affirmed
  3. People v. Lowe CA5 F082437 · 2023-01-27 · criminal · affirmed
  4. Spjut v. County of Kern CA5 F082265 · 2023-01-24 · family · affirmed
  5. Marriage of Koelewyn CA5 F082837M · 2023-01-18 · family · affirmed
  6. Trent v. Fresno County Employees' Retirement Assn. CA5 F083056 · 2023-01-06 · civil · affirmed
  7. Stanley v. The Board of Trustees of the Cal. State University CA5 F082995 · 2023-01-03 · civil · affirmed
  8. Whitlach v. Premier Valley, Inc. F082322 · 2022-12-19 · civil · affirmed
  9. People v. Mejia CA5 F081568 · 2022-11-29 · criminal · vacated
  10. Whitlach v. Premier Valley CA5 F082322 · 2022-11-18 · civil · affirmed
  11. People v. Watkins CA5 F080436 · 2022-11-04 · criminal · affirmed
  12. Richert v. Colvin CA5 F083141 · 2022-10-11 · probate · dismissed
  13. Richert. v. Colvin CA5 F082620 · 2022-10-11 · probate · affirmed
  14. In re Lacey T. CA5 F083998 · 2022-10-03 · family · reversed
  15. Randhawa v. Hanford Community Hospital CA5 F081846 · 2022-09-27 · civil · affirmed
  16. Kaur v. Foster Poultry Farms LLC F081786 · 2022-09-15 · civil · reversed
  17. People v. McDow CA5 F080622 · 2022-07-27 · criminal · affirmed
  18. People v. Loya CA5 F081538 · 2022-07-26 · criminal · vacated
  19. People v. Gomez CA5 F080156M · 2022-07-18 · criminal · vacated
  20. People v. Ventura CA5 F081771M · 2022-07-18 · criminal · affirmed
  21. Magallanes de Valle v. Doctors Medical Center of Modesto F082099 · 2022-07-06 · civil · affirmed
  22. In re A.G. CA5 F083289 · 2022-06-30 · dependency · reversed
  23. People v. Gomez CA5 F080156 · 2022-06-30 · criminal · vacated
  24. People v. Ventura CA5 F081771 · 2022-06-29 · criminal · affirmed
  25. People v. Stankewitz CA5 F079560 · 2022-06-28 · criminal · vacated