Thomas J. Whelan
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 42 reversed 10 reversed in part 4 vacated 3
The Ninth Circuit's later rulings on their dockets
affirmed 4 other 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
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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)
- Chavez v. Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC
- Campos-Eibeck v. C R Bard Incorporated
- Schmalle v. Prudhomme
- National Pork Producers Council v. Ross
- Akpan v. Target Corporation
- Perez v. Worldwide Flight Services, Inc.
- Del Villar v. Transdev Services, Inc
- Commerce Point Capital, Inc. v. First Data Corporation
- Droz v. County of San Diego
- Reno Contracting, Inc. v. Crum & Forster Specialty Insurance Company
- U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Bay Club Fairbanks Ranch, LLC
- Raymond v. FCA US, LLC
- Bodine v. First Co
- SASA Investment Holdings, LLC v. Chhatrala
- Moore v. United States
- Lumas v. United States of America
- Dominguez v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
- Samayoa v. Hickman
- Garnier v. Poway Unified School District
- Korngold v. Commissioner of Social Security
- Quinones v. Berryhill
- Perez v. Mountain Empire Unified School District
- Schmalle v. Prudhomme
- Mar v. Berryhill
- Samayoa v. Hickman