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Thomas J. Whelan

District judge · Superior Court of Southern District of California County · 2001–2026

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99% — 243.5 of 246 orders sound, per qwen3.8-27b; in the top 54% of 51 graded judges

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.

66cases reviewed on appeal
281opinions authored
281panels sat on (not as author)
29%reversed, in whole or part, of 59 merits decisions

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

criminal 35 civil 31

By year: 2010 16 · 2008 6 · 2021 5 · 2019 5 · 2018 4 · 2011 4 · 2007 3 · 2005 3 · 2025 2 · 2024 2 · 2023 2 · 2020 2 · 2012 2 · 2006 2 · 2002 2 · 2026 1 · 2022 1 · 2017 1 · 2015 1 · 2004 1 · 2001 1 ·

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

  1. United States of America v. Prism Autism Foundation 3:19-cv-00043 · 2022-10-06 · civil
  2. General Marine II, LLC v. Kelly 3:21-cv-01425 · 2022-09-27 · civil
  3. Frengel v. McLaren Automotive, Inc. 3:22-cv-00664 · 2022-09-02 · civil
  4. Vena v. Moore, Schulman & Moore, APC 3:22-cv-00437 · 2022-08-31 · civil
  5. United States v. Abbott Laboratories 3:20-cv-00286 · 2022-08-18 · civil
  6. Horton v. Caine & Weiner Company, Inc. 3:21-cv-01160 · 2022-08-15 · civil
  7. E-Z Living LLC v. A10 Capital, LLC 3:21-cv-01270 · 2022-07-21 · civil
  8. Portillo v. City of National City 3:20-cv-02429 · 2022-07-19 · civil
  9. Certified Nutraceuticals Inc. v. The Clorox Company 3:18-cv-00744 · 2022-07-18 · civil
  10. Piccini v. City of San Diego 3:21-cv-01343 · 2022-07-15 · civil
  11. Bouey v. United States of America 3:22-cv-00442 · 2022-07-14 · civil
  12. Fisher v. Ford Motor Company 3:22-cv-00339 · 2022-06-16 · civil
  13. Craig v. Discover Bank 3:21-cv-01407 · 2022-06-13 · civil
  14. Property West, Inc. v. Kinsale Insurance Company 3:22-cv-00530 · 2022-06-13 · civil
  15. E-Z Living LLC v. A10 Capital, LLC 3:21-cv-01270 · 2022-06-09 · civil
  16. Donahue v. Saul 3:19-cv-01818 · 2022-05-26 · civil
  17. Unite Here Local 30 v. Sycuan Band 21-55017 · 2022-05-20 · civil · affirmed
  18. General Marine II, LLC v. Kelly 3:21-cv-01425 · 2022-05-09 · civil
  19. Dalton v. County of San Diego 3:21-cv-02143 · 2022-04-25 · civil
  20. New York Marine and General Insurance Company v. Peters 3:21-cv-01692 · 2022-04-13 · civil
  21. Li v. Zhang 3:21-cv-02017 · 2022-04-11 · civil
  22. Johnson v. Midland Credit Management, Inc. 3:21-cv-01563 · 2022-04-06 · civil
  23. E-Z Living LLC v. A10 Capital, LLC 3:21-cv-01270 · 2022-04-06 · civil
  24. Portillo v. City of National City 3:20-cv-02429 · 2022-04-04 · civil
  25. Free Sacred Trinity Church v. Internal Revenue Service 3:21-cv-01756 · 2022-03-30 · civil