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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 authored (every role)

  1. Vega v. Honeywell International, Inc. 3:19-cv-00663 · 2021-02-25 · civil
  2. Reynolds v. Saul 3:19-cv-01358 · 2021-02-22 · civil
  3. Brooke v. 8757 Rio San Diego Mission Valley Owner LLC 3:20-cv-00975 · 2021-02-18 · civil
  4. Unite Here Local 30 v. Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation 3:20-cv-01006 · 2021-02-16 · civil
  5. Sanchez v. Loews Hotels Holding Corporation 3:19-cv-02084 · 2021-02-08 · civil
  6. Durruthy v. Charter Communications, LLC 3:20-cv-01374 · 2021-01-25 · civil
  7. Thibodeaux v. United States Postal Service 3:20-cv-00651 · 2021-01-25 · civil
  8. Doe v. Johnson 3:16-cv-00750 · 2021-01-22 · civil
  9. Arnold v. Corecivic of Tennessee LLC 3:20-cv-00809 · 2021-01-06 · civil
  10. American Residential Holdings, LLC v. JTB Investments LLC 3:20-cv-00483 · 2020-12-22 · civil
  11. Unite Here Local 30 v. Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation 3:20-cv-01006 · 2020-12-10 · civil
  12. Hernandez v. Pennsylvania Tool Sales & Service, Inc. 3:17-cv-02027 · 2020-12-07 · civil
  13. Walter v. County of San Diego 3:19-cv-02465 · 2020-11-30 · civil
  14. Ward v. Berryhill 3:17-cv-02371 · 2020-11-25 · civil
  15. Durruthy v. Charter Communications, LLC 3:20-cv-01374 · 2020-11-23 · civil
  16. Ronquillo v. BMW of North America, LLC 3:20-cv-01413 · 2020-11-17 · civil
  17. Harner v. USAA General Indemnity Company 3:18-cv-01993 · 2020-10-27 · civil
  18. Razi v. Pompeo 3:20-cv-00982 · 2020-10-23 · civil
  19. Lawson v. Berryhill 3:19-cv-00045 · 2020-10-13 · civil
  20. Vasquez-Ceron v. Ford Motor Company 3:20-cv-01318 · 2020-10-06 · civil
  21. Scher v. Kijakazi 3:20-cv-01665 · 2020-09-22 · civil
  22. Kreischer v. Berryhill 3:18-cv-01034 · 2020-09-21 · civil
  23. Rezek v. U.S. Bank National Association 3:20-cv-00578 · 2020-09-03 · civil
  24. Lee v. Verimatrix Inc 3:19-cv-02054 · 2020-08-17 · civil
  25. Sanchez v. Loews Hotels Holding Corporation 3:19-cv-02084 · 2020-08-10 · civil