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
- Fiallo v. United Services Automobile Association
- Brown v. Sweetwater Union High School District
- Spriggs v. City of San Diego
- Muneer v. Seaworld Parks & Entertainment, Inc.
- Sheehan v. Ford Motor Company
- Vena v. Moore, Schulman & Moore, APC
- Hampton v. Commissioner of Social Security
- M.J. v. La Maestra Family Clinic Inc.
- Orbian Corporation Limited v. Houston
- DesignTechnica Corporation v. Swigart Law Group
- United States v. Jones
- Hodges v. Gloria
- Ngoc Tran Ton v. New York Life Insurance Company
- Kard v. GMAC Mortage, LLC
- Spriggs v. City of San Diego
- Schmidt v. County of San Diego
- Reynolds v. McLaren Group, LLC
- D.T. v. County of San Diego
- Guaranteed Rate, Inc. v. Faust
- United States v. Lewis
- White v. Blockchain Industries, Inc.
- Ellis-Sanders v. Kijakazi
- Gonzales v. Kijakazi
- Anderson v. Kijakazi
- Zepeda v. General Motors LLC