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
- Phan v. University & State Employees Credit Union
- Fergins v. Amazon Web Services, Inc.
- Lopez v. SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment, Inc.
- Russell v. Southern California Permanente Medical Group, Inc.
- Mendez v. Wal-Mart Associates, Inc.
- Meyer v. United States
- Vena v. Moore, Schulman & Moore, APC
- Leung v. UNUM Life Insurance Company of America
- Reel v. Johnson
- Federal Insurance Company v. Tungsten Heavy Powder & Parts, Inc.
- Chandler v. Midland Credit Management Inc.
- Gregory Caputo v. Tungsten Heavy Powder, Inc.
- Frengel v. McLaren Automotive, Inc.
- United States v. Abbott Laboratories
- Cortina v. Kijakazi
- De La Rosa v. Costco Wholesale Corporation
- Jungers v. City of San Diego
- Richmond v. Mikkelson
- Rajaee v. Kresses and Piasecki Legal, PC
- Clines v. County of San Diego
- Estate of Manuel Verdugo v. City of El Centro
- Reel v. Johnson
- Gonzales v. Commissioner of Social Security
- Tousant v. United States
- Samayoa v. Hickman