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
- Vinck v. Berryhill
- Schmidt v. County of San Diego
- Dr. Lokesh Tantuwaya MD Inc. v. JetSuite, Inc.
- Gordon v. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.
- Long v. Commissioner of Social Security
- Epperson v. General Motors, LLC
- Salvestrini v. General Motors, LLC
- Epperson v. General Motors, LLC
- Gaspar v. Mayorkas
- Gopinath v. Somalogic, Inc.
- Cotter v. Movement Mortgage, LLC
- Khudainatov v. United States
- Leung v. UNUM Life Insurance Company of America
- Vena v. Moore, Schulman & Moore, APC
- Ponce v. CalEnergy Operating Corporation
- Av Builder Corp. v. Houston Casualty Company
- Rodriguez, III v. Orange County
- United States v. Sanders
- Dr. Lokesh Tantuwaya MD Inc. v. JetSuite, Inc.
- Gonzales v. Kijakazi
- United States v. Sanders
- Hoffman v. New Flyer of America, Inc.
- Gopinath v. Somalogic, Inc.
- Schaufus v. Freedom Mortgage Corporation
- Chavez Valdez v. Field Asset Services, Inc.