Sunshine S. Sykes
Judge, District Court, C.D. California 2020– · Judge, Superior Court of California, County of Riverside 2013–2022
D++
60% — 6 of 10 rulings upheld, per qwen3.8-27b; in the top 62% of 312 graded judges
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.
40cases reviewed on appeal
34%reversed, in whole or part, of 35 merits decisions
Outcomes on appeal
affirmed 22 reversed in part 6 reversed 6 writ granted 3 dismissed 2 modified 1
Areas
By year: 2016 7 · 2023 6 · 2020 6 · 2022 5 · 2024 4 · 2026 3 · 2025 3 · 2021 2 · 2018 2 · 2015 1 · 2014 1 ·
Analysis
8 of this judge's reviewed cases have an analysis; counts are shown from 10.
Cases
- Vijayraghavan v. Cohan
- Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians v. Blanche
- Walker v. Montgomery
- Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Assn. v. Coachella Valley Water Dist.
- Stewart v. Universal Health Services of Rancho Springs CA4/1
- Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Assn. v. Coachella Valley Water Dist.
- Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Assn. v. Powell CA4/2
- Loudon v. DHSE CA4/2
- Windham v. Medestar Locum Tenens CA4/2
- Moten v. Transworld Systems Inc.
- Moten v. Transworld Systems CA4/2
- Borel v. City of Murrieta CA4/3
- Fitzgibbons v. Chaudhuri CA4/2
- U.S. Real Estate Credit Holdings III-A v. Rubin CA4/3
- City of San Clemente v. Dept. of Transportation
- Garcia v. Clinicas de Salud del Pueblo, Inc. CA4/2
- Silva v. Dolgen California CA4/2
- Gerlach v. K. Hovnanian's Four Seasons at Beaumont, LLC
- Springbrook Heritage Alliance v. City of Riverside CA4/2
- Conservatorship of Ryan M. CA4/2
- Rodriguez v. Eisenhower Medical Center CA4/2
- Bledsoe v. Monster Beverage Corp. CA4/2
- Bledsoe v. Monster Beverage Corp. CA4/2
- People v. Rutherford CA4/2
- Telles v. Wal-Mart Associates CA4/2